Panama 2009 « Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART

Photoshop Magic/Panama

On the recent Panama trip that I co-led with Linda Robbins, the Hummingbird Queen, some of the participants created well more than 4,000 images on a single day. Many of the best of those images featured either the feeder that we used to attract the birds, another hummingbird, or, as in the image below, both. […]

August 26th, 2009 | Category: 2009, 400mmDO-f/4, 800mm-f/5.6, MKIII, Panama 2009 | Comments are closed

Panama: Back to the Basics and More #4 Composition

[Not a valid template] This perched female Blue-chested Hummingbird was photographed near Canopy Tower with the Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens, a 25mm Extension tube for close focusing, and the EOS-1D Mark III. ISO 400. Evauative metering +2/3 stop: 1/50 sec. at f/6.3. Fill flash at -3 stops. The Basics

When working in horizontal […]

August 23rd, 2009 | Category: 2009, 800mm-f/5.6, Macro180mm, MKIII, Panama 2009 | 6 comments - (Comments are closed)

Been Away Too Long/Panama to Jamaica Bay

[Not a valid template] This Keel-billed Toucan was photographed with the Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens, the 1.4X II TC, and the EOS-1D MIII on the Mongoose M3.5 with the Gitzo 3530 LS tripod. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop: 1/200 sec. at f/8 set manually.

After a great Panama trip I flew on […]

August 19th, 2009 | Category: 2009, 800mm-f/5.6, Macro180mm, MKIII, Panama 2009 | 2 comments - (Comments are closed)