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The Trap: Lousy Light, Boring Birds

This image was created at Nickerson Beach, NY with the tripod-mounted Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 1/3 stops was a big underexposure but I knew that I need some shutter speed: 1/1600 sec. at f/5.6

Lens micro-adjustment: -4. Two sensors below the center AI […]

September 16th, 2011 | Category: 2011, 800mm-f/5.6, MKIV, Nickerson Beach, Photo Locations, Photography Tips, Tips | One comment - (Comments are closed)

Juvie Sanderling: Capture, Clean-up and Cropping Lessons

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I created this image while seated behind my tripod-mounted Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens with the 1.4X III TC and the EOS-1D Mark IV. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop: 1/1000 sec. at f/10 in Manual mode.

Lens/TC/camera body Micro-adjustment: 0.

Juvie Sanderling Capture Lessons

As regular readers […]

August 27th, 2011 | Category: 2011, 800mm-f/5.6, Anecdotes, Links to Blogs, Photographers, and Web Sites, Nickerson Beach, Photoshop Tips, Series III TCs, Workflow Tips | 4 comments - (Comments are closed)

Size Does Matter; The Power of the Square of the Focal Length

Size Does Matter; The Power of the Square of the Focal Length

In the original “The Art of Bird Photography” I wrote something to this effect: the size of the bird in the frame is not a factor of the focal length but rather a factor of the square of the focal length. […]

August 25th, 2011 | Category: 2011, 500mm-f/4, 800mm-f/5.6, Anecdotes, Educational, MKIII, MKIV, Photoshop Tips, Series III TCs | 13 comments - (Comments are closed)
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