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Stuff<\/h3>\n

It was another cloudy morning and photography was very slow a first. My last asp spot turned up some cooperative Pied-billed Grebes and American Avocets. I took a friend to the airport at 9am. After my last therapy session of this visit, I headed to Gilbert for my last duck-baiting session with only the 80400 VR. There had been too many folks feeding so the ducks were not eager to fly. Speaking of flying, I head home tomorrow on the 6:15am Southwest nonstop to Orlando. <\/p>\n

Thanks again to all who commented on the duck feeding issue questions. Please remember that I am fine with folks disagreeing politely; snarky comments or replies will be deleted at my discretion. Please continue to play nicely. <\/p>\n

Reminder<\/h3>\n

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The Streak<\/h3>\n

Today makes two hundred twenty-two days in a row with a new educational blog post! This one took about 30 minutes to prepare. With all of my upcoming free time (or not…), the plan right now is to try to break the current record streak of 480 … Good health and good internet connections and my continuing insanity willing.<\/p>\n

Learning from the Comments and Replies …<\/h3>\n

There is often a ton of learning available to those who make it a habit of reading the comments and the replies (at times including mine) \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n

BAA friend Noel Heustis posted this as follows: March 9, 2018 at 7:14 am.<\/p>\n

  • Artie \u2013 I love these Laughing Gulls as well. Today\u2019s image is a beautiful head shot with a nice clean BG. I\u2019ve been photographing a lot of these recently and haven\u2019t been able to get the eyes as bright as you\u2019ve gotten here. There is no shortage of entertainment when photographing these awesome subjects. Thanks for sharing this one today.<\/li>\n

    I replied:<\/p>\n

    Thanks Noel. Here is a great lesson for you and the gang; most folks do not grasp this concept: we are exposing for the WHITEs. That means that the middle tones will be one stop too dark and the dark tones will be 1 1 2\/3 to 2 stops too dark …<\/em><\/strong> The solution is to do the Eye Doctor work using Tim Grey Dodge and burn as detailed in the BIRDS AS ART Current Workflow e-Guide (Digital Basics II)<\/em> here<\/a>. Furthermore, serious students who want to learn the exposure theory mentioned above are directed to the section on Exposure Theory in the original The Art of Bird Photography<\/em> here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

    with love, artie<\/em><\/p>\n

    The Used Gear Page<\/h3>\n

    Action on the Used Gear Page recently has been fantastic. You can see all current listings here.<\/a><\/p>\n

    Booking.Com<\/h3>\n

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