{"id":775,"date":"2009-11-16T20:52:16","date_gmt":"2009-11-17T00:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/?p=775"},"modified":"2011-02-24T14:25:56","modified_gmt":"2011-02-24T18:25:56","slug":"me-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/2009\/11\/16\/me-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Me Bad!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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Canon 400mm f\/4 IS DO lens handheld with the EOS-50D. ISO 250. Evaluative Metering +2\/3 stop: 1\/1000 sec. at f\/5. Be sure to click on each image to see a larger version.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

Wow, I was beyond swamped last week getting ready for my trip to San Diego and getting things in order at the home office or–to put it more accurately, the office home.\u00a0 I will be adding two rooms on the western end of the house: an exercise room and a 3rd bedroom that will serve as a storage area for prints and product.\u00a0 We have slowly outgrown the house so there is no choice but to enlarge it. I apologize for having been away for so long.<\/p>\n

I did a program and a live demo on Saturday and on Sunday at Photo Expo West in Del Mar, my appearance sponsored generously by Canon USA\/Explorers of Light.\u00a0 All of the programs were well received.\u00a0 I did get out each morning and created the image above on Saturday in LaJolla.<\/p>\n

Three Marbled Godwits flew in and landed in front of me while I was photographing a Western Gull at close range with the 800 and the 1.4X II TC,\u00a0 head portraits actually.\u00a0 The godwits were feeding on a limestone shelf about three feet high.\u00a0 There was a narrow gap between that shelf and another almost adjacent one.\u00a0\u00a0 My hiking boots, the ones that I will be using at Bosque in the afternoon, were protected from the salt water with my NEOS so I simply walked into the narrow gap to get right on sun angle.\u00a0 Then I either kneeled or sat if there was a convenient rock available to get right down to the bird’s level.\u00a0\u00a0 A big wave splashed over the top of the NEOS on my left foot and another soaked my butt while I was sitting.\u00a0 If I had had only the 800 lens with me I would have had to move way back and up the sloping beach;\u00a0 even if I had kneeled behind my lowered tripod I would have still been well above the birds and the resulting images would not have been anywhere as pleasing or intimate as this one.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The background is the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

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Canon 800mm f\/5.6L IS lens with a 1.4X II TC and the EOS 1D MIII. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1\/400 sec. at f\/14 set manually.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n

This gull was sitting peacefully on a rock.\u00a0\u00a0 While standing behind my tripod the background was a mix of yellowish sandstone and breaking waves.\u00a0 To attain the Pacific-blue background that I wanted, I lowered the tripod so that the lens was about 2 feet off the ground.\u00a0 I was hoping that the bird would yawn but that was to no avail.<\/p>\n

As you can see, the tripod-mounted 800 f\/56. and the handheld 400 DO complement each other beautifully.<\/p>\n

Yikes; I should have mentioned that BAA Bulletin #305 can be found online by following this link:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.birdsasart.com\/2009\/11\/13\/birds-as-art-bulletin-305<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bulletin #305<\/h2>\n

Here are the featured items:<\/p>\n

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  • COMMON SENSE PHOTOGRAPHIC ETHICS<\/li>\n
  • ON-THE-ROAD AGAIN<\/li>\n
  • TRIPOD HEAD HELP AND INFO<\/li>\n
  • PHOTO EXPO WEST APPEARANCE\/NOV 15\/16<\/li>\n
  • ALBUQUERQUE APPEARANCE\/DEC 1<\/li>\n
  • LONG ISLAND APPEARANCE\/DEC 8<\/li>\n
  • ROBERT O\u2019TOOLE\u2019S APTATS II\/Pre-Publication Discount Offer<\/li>\n
  • CANON 600 IS FOR SALE<\/li>\n
  • SAN DIEGO ITP<\/li>\n
  • POSSE NEWS\/ROBERT AMORUSO<\/li>\n
  • IPT UPDATES<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Item 1 is particularly interesting.<\/p>\n

    I will be back soon.\u00a0 And I head to Bosque on Thursday November 19th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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    Wow, I was beyond swamped last week getting ready for my trip to San Diego and getting things in order at […]<\/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":[88,37,45,28,33,46,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-88","category-400mmdo-f4","category-50d","category-800mm-f5-6","category-bulletins","category-lajolla-ca","category-mkiii","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775","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=775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.birdsasart-blog.com\/baa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}