On the morning of March 14 I photographed at Little Estero Lagoon in Fort Myers Beach, FL with IPT veterans Brendan Quigley and Bob Blanchard. While we were amazed that there were so few herons and egrets around we still had lots of great photo opps. The bridge over San Carlos Pass was closed for most of the morning for a parade so it took us a while to get to breakfast lunch. Brendan took us to First Watch on the corner of College and Cleveland where we looked at images and had some great chow.
The SW FLA IPT report will be coming soon.
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| Mottled Duck, drake, Little Estero Lagoon, Fort Myers Beach, FL, Image copyright 2009: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART. Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens with the EOS-1D Mark III on the Mongoose M3.5 atop the Gitzo 3530LS CF tripod. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 stop: 1/400 sec. at f/11. Getting flat on the ground yields intimate images but you need to be willing to get wet and muddy as I did here. I went for some extra depth of field here knowing that with the bird swiming slowly that 1400 sec. was plenty fast enough for making sharp images. |
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| Wilsons’s Plover on beach, Fort Myers Beach, FL, Image Copyright 2009: Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART. Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens with the EOS-1D Mark III on the Mongoose M3.5 atop the Gitzo 3530LS CF tripod. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 1/3 stops set manually: 1/320 sec. at f/10. This image is a stitch pano created from three horizontal frames , combined in Photoshop CS3, and then cropped from the righ. To merge the images click on File/Automate/Batch/Photomerge. Whenever you see something that looks great long and low, think stitched pano. |
