{"id":618,"date":"2009-08-03T18:24:27","date_gmt":"2009-08-03T22:24:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=618"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:26:18","slug":"the-galapagos-trip-continued-baa-bulletin-294-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2009\/08\/03\/the-galapagos-trip-continued-baa-bulletin-294-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"The Galapagos Trip Continued, BAA Bulletin 294, and More"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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This male frigatebird was photographed with the Canon 800mm f\/5.6L IS lens, the 1.4X II TC, and the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/50 sec. at f\/9.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Folks often ask me, “With the birds in the Galapagos being so tame, why do you bring a long telephoto lens?”\u00a0 The answer is the same as it is for the\u00a0Antarctica version of the same question:\u00a0 sometimes a long lens is the best tool.\u00a0 In Antarctica, you are required\u00a0to give the birds some space.\u00a0 And in the Galapagos, you must stay on the path.\u00a0 If you examine this image closely, or take a look at the larger version\u00a0\u00a0(click on the photo), \u00a0you will notice that the bird is sidelit.\u00a0 I generally do not like strong sidelight for birds; in this image\u00a0the light, though directional, is quite soft.\u00a0 The result:\u00a0 I like it.<\/p>\n

I am almost finished reading William Beebe’s great book on the Galapagos, “Galapagos; World’s End,”\u00a0published in 1924. One of the coolest things that I learned is that male frigatebirds (man-o-wars in the old days) sit on their nests with their red sacs inflated only before any eggs are laid.\u00a0 With eggs or chicks in the nest, the sac is deflated as in this image.\u00a0 There is lots more great stuff in the book–especially the language–and I am enjoying it tremendously.<\/p>\n

You can read and enjoy more\u00a0great Galapagos images and information in BIRDS AS ART Bulletin #294 here:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.birdsasart.com\/bn294.htm<\/a>.\u00a0 There is a follow-up piece on editing your work and lots more on the Galapagos trip.\u00a0\u00a0 And a great photoship background tip.\u00a0 On a related note, Galapagos 2010 is sold out with a waiting list.\u00a0 We are taking names (but no prisoners) for the 2011 trip.<\/p>\n

The July 30, 2009 BIRDS AS ART Notes is also online for your convenience.\u00a0 You can access it here: http:\/\/www.birdsasart.com\/notes073009.htm<\/a>\u00a0 Most of you will enjoy and learn from “Photoshop Clean-up Basics.”<\/p>\n

I am leaving for the Panama COMBO IPT (being co-led by Linda Robbins) this coming\u00a0Saturday and then continuing on to New York City on the 17th to lead the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge\/Nickerson Beach IPT (AUG 17-20).\u00a0 If you would like to learn about this trip and the late registration discount, please e-mail me at birdsasart@att.net<\/a> ASAP.\u00a0 After the JBWR IPT I will be visiting my 88 year old Mom on Long Island.\u00a0 She is recovering nicely from some serious surgery on her old new hip.\u00a0 I will be back in the office on 25 AUG but will have lots of time to post here between now and then.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ngg_shortcode_1_placeholder This male frigatebird was photographed with the Canon 800mm f\/5.6L IS lens, the 1.4X II TC, and the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/50 sec. at f\/9. <\/p>\n

Folks often ask me, “With the birds in the Galapagos being so tame, why do you bring a long telephoto lens?” The answer […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[88,28,49,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-88","category-800mm-f5-6","category-galapagos-2009","category-mkiii","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}