{"id":6711,"date":"2011-09-06T07:35:10","date_gmt":"2011-09-06T11:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=6711"},"modified":"2011-12-20T12:42:03","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T16:42:03","slug":"for-your-critique-image-6-travel-day-adventures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2011\/09\/06\/for-your-critique-image-6-travel-day-adventures\/","title":{"rendered":"For Your Critique: Image #6 & Travel Day Adventures!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Brown Pelican in Peach Heaven, La Jolla, CA. I created this image with the 70-200 f\/2.8L IS II lens and the 2X II TC (hand held at 400mm) with the EOS-1D Mark IV. Flash at zero. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +2 1\/3 stops: 1\/60 sec. at f\/6.3 in Tv Mode (to control a minimum shutter speed). See more on this image here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

For Your Critique: Image #6<\/strong><\/h3>\n

The image above is presented for your critique; feel free to praise it or tear it to shreds. All suggestions are welcome. Would you keep it or delete it? Let us know why either way, what you like or what you hate. What would you have done differently? <\/p>\n

Over the course of the next two months or so, I will present fourteen additional images in this series for a total of twenty in all. The last will be followed by several revelations including two major ones. Do note that for your viewing pleasure, I have posted a 1400 pixel wide version of the first image in this series; you can see it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Travel Day Adventures!<\/strong><\/h3>\n

I awoke at 3am as rain began beating down on the roof of my Mom’s home in Holbrook, NY. I got up for good and was glad to see that it had quit raining. I had the car loaded by 5:30 and was on my way to McArthur Airport in Islip for my flight to Orlando. As I drove into the airport it began to rain again so I decided to see if I could use curb-side check-in. Seeing only two folks on line I rolled up to a young cop and asked him if I could leave the car for two minutes and check in explaining that I had two bags and two carry-ons, , would need to walk the hundred yards to the terminal, grab a $4 cart, walk back to my car, and then walk back to the terminal. He smiled and said, “Sorry. No.” <\/p>\n

It began to rain a bit harder. I made my way to the terminal, paid for a cart, got back to the car, and loaded my bags. As I went to cross the roadway the cart hit a rut and veered right smacking against the curb. I followed the cart into a four inch deep puddle. With open-toed sandals. My Think Tank bag and my two big checked bags fell off the cart into the puddle. I packed everything up and made it to the terminal. I checked in and was on line for security when I remembered that I had forgotten to return my rental car keys. <\/p>\n

I made it to the gate an hour before my flight smiling at what a great morning I had had. Still breathing, and still loving every minute of it. If you see this on Tuesday morning, it means that I was successful in posting this from my seat on Soutwest Airlines (still on the ground) via the 3G Mobile Hotspot connection on my Droid phone. <\/p>\n

Shopper’s Guide<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Below is a list of the gear that I used to create the images above. Thanks a stack to all who have used the Shopper’s Guide links to purchase their gear as a thank you for all the free information that we bring you on the Blog and in the Bulletins. Before you purchase anything be sure to check out the advice in our recently revised Shopper’s Guide<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Canon 70-200mm f\/2.8L IS II lens<\/a>. Man, I am loving this lens on my shoulder with the 2X III teleconverter<\/a>. I also use it a lot with the 1.4X III TC<\/a>.
\n2X III teleconverter<\/a>. This new TC is noticeably sharper than the 2X II TC.
\nCanon EOS-1D Mark IV professional digital camera body.<\/a> My workhorse professional digital camera body. I own two.
\nCanon 580 EX II Speedlight<\/a>. This is Canon’s most powerful, top of the line flash.
\nCanon CP-E4 Compact Battery Pack<\/a>. Powers the flash. Allows more consecutive flashes and faster recharging times. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Brown Pelican in Peach Heaven, La Jolla, CA. I created this image with the 70-200 f\/2.8L IS II lens and the 2X II TC (hand held at 400mm) with the EOS-1D Mark IV. Flash at zero. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +2 1\/3 stops: 1\/60 sec. at f\/6.3 in Tv Mode (to control a […]<\/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":[90],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-90","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711","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=6711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6711\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}