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Image courtesy of and copyright 2011: Denise Ippolito. With the Canon 100-400mm IS L zoom lens (hand held) and the Canon EOS-1D Mark III (now replaced by the Canon EOS-1D Mark IV). |
Image Caption Contest
Write the funniest caption for the image above and win a $20 credit at the BIRDS AS ART On-Line Store. Judges: Jim Litzenburg, Jennifer Morris, and artie.
What’s Going On Here? Contest
Be the first to let us know what I was doing in the image above and win a $20 credit at the BIRDS AS ART On-Line Store. Judge: artie. Note: if you were on either boat in Homer you are NOT eligible for this contest. :). And no cheating will be permitted; you need to figure it out on your own (if that is possible…)
Results
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Shopper’s Guide
Below is a list of the gear used to create the image in today’s blog post. 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 Shopper’s Guide.
Canon 100-400mm IS L zoom lens: A versatile all purpose zoom lens for all types of nature and general photography. Several excellent photographers including Dan Cadieux and Aidan Briggs use this lens as their workhorse bird photography telephoto lens.
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV professional digital camera body. My two Mark IVs are my workhorse digital camera bodies.
And from the BAA On-line Store:
The Lens Align Mark II. I use the Lens Align Mark II pretty much religiously to micro-adjust all of my gear an average of once a month and always before a major trip. Enjoy our free comprehensive tutorial here.
Canon EOS-1D Mark IV User’s Guide. Learn to use your Mark IV the way that I use mine. Also available for the 7D and the Mark III here.
Canon, for a close shave!
Hey! I can hear the sea in this! What? Oh yes, I’m right by the sea.
Do you see what I see,
Do you hear what I hear,
A star, a star, yes I know I are,
Zen master of my Canon DSLR.
“I triple-dog-dare you!”
(…heard just prior to the camera freezing to Artie’s ear!)
Best Title: F8 and be hear
Artie was holding his focus and sight line while glancing in another direction.
Hello Hello – Jim I can’t hear a thing you are saying on this new phone.
I think you’re checking to see if the slide zoom mechanism is purring along or if the motor inside the lens is having a problem hanging up.
Title: Focus Ringing?
Title: Internal Sound Optimization (ISO)
Title: F8 and the ear
Listening very carefully, Artie thought he could hear the tiny camera gremlins plotting against him.
“Can someone please help me remove this camera from my head!”
This is what happens when you stay up too late doing post processing and have an early morning shoot.
Artie is demonstrating the correct way to clear wax or water from your ears using the air-pump-action of the Canon 100-400 push-pull zoom 🙂
Photographer thinks he’s Horton – Listens for Whos.
After years of speculation, scientists finally prove that teachers do indeed have eyes in the back of their head.
After being hit with frozen fish, famous photographer mistakes camera for Q-Tip
Checking -did my lens fall out ?
Camera Body: $5000.
Lens $1500.
Capturing a famous photographer in a silly pose: Priceless!
Caption – I always get a ringing in my ear when the CANON goes off!
I think that Artie is listening to see if the beep goes off when focusing is aquired.
Very funny comments!
What is Art really doing? My guess is getting ready to make a “pleasing blur.” Getting ready to move the lens to a flock of birds.
Artie demonstrating a bird identification aid.
Hear! Hear! Family jewel.
Aye, aye.
Caption 1: Good? Good?! Why Artie’s so good he can frame with his ear.
Caption 2: Canon Whisperer
Going on: Listening for shutter movement or lack there of?
How to photograph Hearing Gull.
Can you hear me now?
Birding by ear can be enhanced with a telephoto lens.
Artie’s latest method of micro-focus adjustment.
Prime example of what happens when Artie stops taking his meds.
Yep, I hear them…here they come again…it’s those blasted flashing highlights!
My guess is that your cheek is keeping the batteries warm.
“In one ear and out the other.”
“Did you say D4?”
Before perfecting “Rear Focus” Artie briefly experimented with “Ear Focus”
I still can’t hear that bird singing, maybe I need to add my 2X teleconverter.
I thought this was pretty obvious. Artie is so attuned to his subjects that he can shoot them by sound.
“It’s too darned cold! I thought I was looking into the viewfinder”
Great photo! I think you are pressing your face against the camera body to steady it while handholding. Your left eye is still on the subject.
I think you’re closing an eye to avoid being blinded by the sun. Not funny, but possibly true.
checking if IS is working?
Shooting by ear…..
The real question is, like his gloves, does he have different colored boots on….and do they match his shorts?
Shark!
See no eagle. Hear no eagle.
Hummm… These birds became smaller and smaller as the years go by…
Yup, that’s 1/2000th of a second alright! The shutter’s fine, must be something wrong with the lens.
“Winter flounder seen photographing eagles is a fluke”
“I can hear the ocean in my camera!?”
The new Canon EOS 1-EAR I-EYE comes with an ELPH in the body.
That’s strange! I don’t hear any birds in here. Cant be all gone, can they?
A perfect example of Artie being able to see with his third eye.
“I hear bird calls inside this camera?!”
“It sounds like your memory card is full of bird images.”
What’s going on: listening to mirror slap and shutter travel to verify proper operation.
“No, I wasn’t taking a photo of you! Can’t you see the cmaera is pointed in another direction?”
“I know my car keys are in there somewhere…”
“This is even worse than the old tongue on the frozen pump prank.”
“Yes, I should have carried the tripod.”
“You need an eye to focus on?”
” This … a Hearing Aid … you got to be kidding me ???!!! ”
Artie says … ” You gotta get close to your work ! “
“no, no, I’m on my new cameraphone. Yes, those guys at Canon are geniuses! What? You found my other blue glove?”
“The new microphone on the 70-300 also allows you to hear the bird’s calls as well as get a great picture”
“Remember, it gets cold in Alaska and the metal of your camera may stick to exposed skin”
“Do note that the latest Canon bodies have the user manual stored internally. If you are concentrating on the subject, you can program the replay button to read the manual out loud. Just set custom function IV-18b to 3.”
Well, the image is quite “funny”…
“Denise, like you told me, I’m wearing different colors on my gloves to distinguish my left hand from my right one, but you haven’t told me how I can distinguish my hears from my eyes”
Artie recommends the use of an IPhone for bird calls.
“I could have sworn I heard my camera phone ring”
“Mom, is that you?”
“WOW! I shoulda had a V8!”
“Hello?” “HELLOOO?” “I really should get an iPhone.”
“I’ll know it’s focused when I hear the beep.”
“Seriously. If you hold the 70 – 300 up to your ear you can hear the ocean. Denise. Uh, Denise . . .”
“Are you sure this is the way to keep the battery warm?”
“I should have worn my cap with ear flaps.”
“Ideally, when the subject is roughly parallel to the film plane, the subject’s head should be parallel to the film plane.”