{"id":66616,"date":"2020-03-20T05:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T09:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=66616"},"modified":"2025-03-07T11:48:12","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T15:48:12","slug":"on-detail-less-snow-and-a-too-gray-crow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2020\/03\/20\/on-detail-less-snow-and-a-too-gray-crow\/","title":{"rendered":"On Detail-less Snow and a Too-Gray Crow …"},"content":{"rendered":"

What’s Up?<\/h3>\n

DAY 1 on the spoonbill boat was fair at best. In the morning, we had a very few good chances despite perfect conditions — lovely early light, low tide, and an east wind. In the afternoon we enjoyed the wind shift to the southwest, lots of flying Brown Pelicans (many carrying and landing with nesting material), and some pretty neat White Ibis blastoffs. We head back out this morning, Friday 20 MAR 2020. <\/p>\n

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Gear Questions and Advice<\/h3>\n

Too many folks attending BAA IPTs and dozens of photographers whom I see in the field and on BPN<\/a>, are–out of ignorance–using the wrong gear especially when it comes to tripods and more especially, tripod heads… Please know that I am always glad to answer your gear questions via e-mail<\/a>. Those questions might deal with systems, camera bodies, accessories, and\/or lens choices and decisions. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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This image was created on 1 MAR 2020, the last day of the 1st Homer IPT. I used the handheld Sony FE 200-600mm f\/5.6-6.3 G OSS lens<\/a> (at 312mm) with the blazingly fast AF King, the Sony Alpha a9 II Mirrorless Digital camera body. <\/a> ISO 1250. Exposure determined by Zebras with ISO on the rear wheel: 1\/500 sec. at f\/6.3 in Manual mode. AWB at 2:25pm on a cloudy afternoon. <\/p>\n

Wide AF-C performed surprisingly well. Click on the image to enjoy a larger version. <\/p>\n

Image #1: Northwestern Crow on snow, the original version\n