What’s Up?
We met our San Diego IPT group last night at the introductory Meet and Greet. It looks as if it will be a great group. And best of all, the weather is improving. We meet the group at 6am for our first crack at the pelicans.
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This image was created at La Jolla, CA with the Induro GIT 304L tripod/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS II USM lens with the Canon EOS 5DS R DSLR . ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop as framed: 1/160 sec. at f/5.6. AWB. On-camera fill flash at -3 stops with the Canon Speedlite 600EX-RT Center AF point/AI Servo Expand/Rear Focus AF on the top knot and re-compose. Click here to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Brown Pelican, Pacific race in breeding plumage, back of neck abstract |
Sometimes When It is Supposed to Suck, It Doesn’t…
Weather forecast for San Diego, 7am, Thursday January 7, 2015: 80% chance of torrential downpours with high winds.
What to do? Head to the cliffs of course. It had poured twice between 4 and 6am when I left the hotel. To get to my rental car, I had to wade through an eight-inch deep puddle. It was drizzling when I arrived. I scoped out the situation and found that there were no birds in their usual spot. But there were several hundred roosting nearby. The next thing that I know good friend Patrick Sparkman materialized right behind me. Long story short: we had one of our best-ever mornings at the cliffs. And that included lots of neat flight photography with our 100-400 IIs.
So what are the morals of the story?
- Pay no attention at all to the weather forecast; you will not make any good images in your hotel room.
- Bad weather often makes for excellent photography.
I will be sharing many more images from this wonderful morning here with you in future blog posts.
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Typos
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One of your best images!
Unique Image … filled with lots of creativity. Christian …
Beautiful thinking “outside the box!”
Very unique image. Absolutely beautiful!
I really love this unique perspective.
Excellent abstract image, very unusual.
I’m hesitant to correct a former English teacher but should morals/morales have an e in it?
Thanks Gary. From WordHippo: the plural form of moral is morals. a
Hey Gary, When I first replied I did not realize that I had mis-typed the word… The “e” was indeed a typo. a