This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Autofocus lens and the C

This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L used tour buses IS USM Autofocus lens and the Canon EOS-1D X digital used tour buses SLR . ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop off the low sky: 1/3200 sec. at f/6.3 in Manual mode. Central sensor/AI Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a spectacular larger version.
The wing position in this image, with the bird s wings fully up, is ideal. Note that I was working 99.99% right down sun angle. The tiny shadow of the bend of the near wing on the dorsal surface of the far wing indicates that I was off by .01%.
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Right now the Barnegat Jetty IPT that I am co-leading with Denise Ippolito has a single registrant. We are looking forward to working with Bill Wingfield who is flying from Charleston, South Carolina and meeting us in Manahawkin, NJ this coming Thursday for lunch and our first afternoon photo session. Bill seems like the happiest of campers. Click here and scroll down for additional info and images. And feel free to call me on my cell at 863-221-2372 from 9am to 9pm for late registration discount information. Please leave a message with a callback number if I do not pick up. As my late Dad used to say, I don t here such good anymore.
This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Autofocus lens and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR . ISO 400. Evaluative used tour buses metering +1 stop off the low sky: 1/1250 sec. at f/7.1 in Manual used tour buses mode. Central sensor/AI Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version.
The short answer is Yes. Be sure to click on each image to see the spectacular larger and sharper version. used tour buses I just noticed that the color on some of the enlarged images is more pleasant than on the smaller images that appear in the blog itself. I am not sure if it is a color space issue or a Word Press issue. IAC, the images in the blog are more red and the larger images are more pleasingly and properly yellow. Today is the first time I have noticed that.
On the recently concluded Bosque del Apache IPT I used the Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS lens with the amazing EOS-1D X professional digital camera body for all of my photography of Sandhill Cranes in flight during both our morning and afternoon used tour buses sessions. The results blew me away. I wound up deleting 100s of perfectly sharp flight images with good wing positions. Why? So that I d have room on my hard drives for the really spectacular images like those above and below.
This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Autofocus lens and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR . ISO 400. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop off the sky just above the mountains: 1/1650 sec. at f/7.1 in Manual mode. Central sensor/AI Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. used tour buses Click on the image to see a larger version.
When I am teaching at Bosque, I am constantly reminding folks that the most dramatic images are made when the birds are just below r just above the Chupadera Mountains in the background. In the image above, the early morning light and the shadows on the mountains add to that drama.
This image was created with the tripod-mounted used tour buses Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Autofocus lens and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR . ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 1/3 stops off the sky just above the mountains: 1/1000 sec. at f/5.6 in Manual used tour buses mode. Central sensor/AI Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. used tour buses Click on the image to see a larger version.
Why ISO 800 and +1 1/3 stops for the image above? The image was made at 7:03am not long after sunrise. The softer used tour buses the light the dumber the meter. In full sun I d make a similar image at only +1/3 off the much bluer sky. Note one of my two favorite wing positions: wings fully down.
This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Autofocus lens and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR . ISO 800. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop off the sky just above the mountains: 1/2500 sec. at f/7.1 in Manual mode. Three sensors right of central sensor/AI Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version.
South winds are rare at the crane pools in the morning. used tour buses Understanding the relationship between wind and light direction and bird behavior is hugely important to those wishing to become good bird photographers. Note my other favorite wing positions: wings full up. Note that once it gets to be about 7:30am or so on clear days I switch the exposure to only +2/3 stop off the sky; as the meter gets smarter as the sun gets brighter. But the meter is never as smart as a competent photographer who understands exposure. See the section on Exposure Theory in the original The Art of Bird Photography and Exposure Simplified in ABP II . Save $10 by purchasing the two book bundle . Learn more about each book and about Digital Basics in 98.6 Per Cent here .
This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Autofocus lens and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR . ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop off the low sky: 1/2000 sec. at f/5.6 in Manual mode. Central sensor/AI Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a spectacular larger version.
When you see a group of cranes fling in over the cottonwoods used tour buses in the afternoon the trick is to watch them carefully and train your long lens on a bird that separates from the group to avoid merges and clipped wings as they come in to land .
This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Autofocus used tour buses lens and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR . ISO 400. Evaluative metering used tour buses +1 stop off the low sky: 1/1250 sec. at f/6.3 in Manual mode. Two sensors left of central sensor/AI Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. used tour buses Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version.
The image above was created with in the afternoon as the cranes were returning to their evening roost in the main impoundment. Moving the active sensor with both the 1D X and the 5D Mark III is a snap. You can learn everything that I know about the great AF system of the 1D X in the 1D X AF Guide and everything that I know about the 5D III in the 5D Mark III User s Guide .
This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L used tour buses IS USM Autofocus lens and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR . ISO 1600. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop off the low sky: 1/1250 sec. at f/9 in Manual mode. Central sensor/AI used tour buses Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version.
This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Autofocus lens and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR . ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1 stop off the low sky: 1/1250 sec. at f/7.1 in Manual mode. Central sensor/AI Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger used tour buses version.
A healthy dose of NIK Color Efex Pro got this image to sing. Here I used one of my custom recipes: 80% Tonal Contrast/33% Detail Extractor. After I ran this combo I reduced the opacity in Photoshop to about 50%.
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This image was created with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Autofocus used tour buses lens and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR . ISO 400. Evaluative metering used tour buses +1 1/3 stops off the sky above the mountains in very early morning light: 1/60 sec. at f/6.3 in Manual mode. Central sensor/AI Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure. Click here if you missed the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version.
Getting the eye sharp when creating pan blurs requires you to match your panning speed with the speed of the bird in flight. The older I get the more difficult it becomes used tour buses to do that. Want to learn more? Get yourself a copy of A Guide to Pleasing Blurs by Denise Ippolito and yours truly.
This pair of Sandhill Cranes was photographed at Bosque del Apache NWR, San Antonio, used tour buses NM with the tripod-mounted Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM Autofocus lens , the Canon 1.4x EF Extender III (teleconverter) , and the Canon EOS-1D X digital SLR . ISO 800. Evaluative metering +1 stop off the low sky: 1/1600 sec. at f/8 in Manual mode.
As regular readers used tour buses know I purchased a second 1D X after wreckin