What’s Up?
On Monday morning I was joined by private clients Andrea Kipin Acera and her friend Kathy Sheeter, an incredibly talented scratchboard fine artist Cathy Sheeter (wwww.cathysheeter.com). We had some nice early color followed by a few clouds on the eastern horizon that soon gave way to wind against sun conditions. Bummer. So we went down to the surf and got lucky with some oystercatchers…
I met the IPT group at 3pm on Monday afternoon. Amazingly–on Sunday afternoon–Bob DeCroce of Cedar Knolls, NJ joined the IPT for three days. Turns out that he is a super nice guy.
The Streak
Today’s blog post marks a totally insane, absurd, completely ridiculous, unfathomable, silly, incomprehensible, what’s wrong with this guy?, makes-no-sense, 251 days in a row with a new educational blog post. And I still have dozens of new topics to cover; there should be no end in sight until my big South America trip next fall. As always-–and folks have been doing a really great job recently–-please remember to use our B&H links for your major gear purchases. For best results use one of our many product-specific links; after clicking on one of those you can continue shopping with all subsequent purchases invisibly tracked to BAA. Your doing so is always greatly appreciated. Please remember: web orders only. AND Please remember also that if you are shopping for items that we carry in the new BAA Online Store (as noted in red at the close of this post below) we would appreciate your business.
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This image was created on Monday morning, July 18 at Nickerson Beach with the Induro GIT 304L/Mongoose M3.6-mounted Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM lens, the Canon Extender EF 1.4X III, and the mega mega-pixel Canon EOS 5DS R.. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop as originally framed: 1/800 sec. at f/5.6 AWB. AI Servo Expand/Shutter button AF as described below. LensAlign/FocusTune micro-adjustment: +5. American Oystercatcher fledgling in surf in early morning light |
I Guessed Wrong
I knew that with the baby oystercatcher relatively small in the frame that I had to guess which way it would look. I thought that it would look to my left so I picked a sensor on the right side of the frame. Wrong guess! He looked to my right–his left, so I was left short-sided with the bird on the wrong side of the frame looking out… The solution was a crop to a vertical from the horizontal original. With a nice sharp RAW file I was left with a high quality optimized TIFF that checked in as a high quality 50+ MB 8-bit flattened file. You gotta love the crop-ability of 5DS R files.
The Streak
Today’s blog post marks a totally insane, absurd, completely ridiculous, unfathomable, silly, incomprehensible, what’s wrong with this guy?, makes-no-sense, 251 days in a row with a new educational blog post. And I still have dozens of new topics to cover; there should be no end in sight until my big South America trip next fall. As always-–and folks have been doing a really great job recently–-please remember to use our B&H links for your major gear purchases. For best results use one of our many product-specific links; after clicking on one of those you can continue shopping with all subsequent purchases invisibly tracked to BAA. Your doing so is always greatly appreciated. Please remember: web orders only. AND Please remember also that if you are shopping for items that we carry in the new BAA Online Store (as noted in red at the close of this post below) we would appreciate your business.
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Typos
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