{"id":726,"date":"2009-09-21T10:01:02","date_gmt":"2009-09-21T14:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=726"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:26:18","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:26:18","slug":"bulletins-baby-bears-and-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2009\/09\/21\/bulletins-baby-bears-and-more\/","title":{"rendered":"Bulletins, Baby Bears, and More…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Handheld Canon 400mm f\/4 IS DO lens with the EOS-1D MIII. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1\/500 sec. at f\/4 set manually.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

With its light silver nuchal collar (ruff) we nicknamed this\u00a0baby Katmai bear\u00a0“Lion Cub.”<\/p>\n

I just got back from a nice extended weekend at the Midwest Birding Symposium.\u00a0\u00a0Not much photography but lots of great speakers and lots of nice folks.\u00a0\u00a0 And I sold pretty much everything that I brought <smile>\u00a0 Twenty copies of the soft cover “The Art of Bird Photography,” 40 copies of “The Art of Bird Photography II” (on CD only), and 36 copies of my Shorebirds; Beautiful Beachcombers.\u00a0 You can learn more or purchase these here:\u00a0 https:\/\/store.birdsasart.com\/shop\/category.aspx?catid=32<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I should have let you know well before this that BAA Bulletin 297 is on-line here:\u00a0 http:\/\/birdsasart.com\/bn297.htm<\/a>, BAA Bulletin 298 is on-line here: http:\/\/birdsasart.com\/bn298.htm<\/a>, and the BAA Notes of September 15 can be found here:\u00a0 http:\/\/birdsasart.com\/notes9.15.09.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Tripod-mounted Canon 400mm f\/4 IS DO lens with the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1\/3 stop: 1\/160 sec. at f\/6.3. Gitzo 3530 LS CF tripod with the latest model Mongoose M3.5.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

This is the same bear as in the first image.\u00a0The adults often give a good part of their catch to the young ones.\u00a0 When the light was decent, I\u00a0used the 400 DO lens handheld (as with the first image).\u00a0As light levels decreased, I put the lens back on the tripod to ensure getting sharp images.\u00a0\u00a0The 400 DO (diffractive optical elements) lens weighs less than 4 pounds with the tripod collar removed.\u00a0Be sure to remove the tripod collar when hand-holding; this makes handling the lens easier both because of the lighter weight and the fact that the tripod collar and lens plate do not interfere with your grip.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Canon 70-200mm f\/4 L IS lens with the EOS-1D MIII handheld at 124mm. ISO 800. Evaluative metering at zero: 1\/500 sec. at f\/5.6.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

I manually selected a lower left AF\u00a0sensor that I placed on participant George Brunt; this yielded a pleasing composition with the sharpest focus on the photographer.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 See the image of George with an adult bear sniffing his tripod and the resulting firestrom here:\u00a0 http:\/\/birdphotographers.net\/forums\/showthread.php?t=45384<\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0 (You can see the image in the September 10th blog post below.)\u00a0 And see more negative comments on this image in “Too Close to the Bear?” here: http:\/\/birdsasart.com\/notes9.15.09.htm<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I’ll be back soon with some Katmai Quick Mask magic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

ngg_shortcode_3_placeholder Handheld Canon 400mm f\/4 IS DO lens with the EOS-1D MIII. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1\/500 sec. at f\/4 set manually. <\/p>\n

With its light silver nuchal collar (ruff) we nicknamed this baby Katmai bear “Lion Cub.”<\/p>\n

I just got back from a nice extended weekend at the Midwest Birding Symposium. Not much photography […]<\/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":[88,37,34,30,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-88","category-400mmdo-f4","category-70-200mm-f4","category-katmai-2009","category-mkiii","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726","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=726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/726\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}