"I love Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART"

2022-09-14 20:59:45

Call: 1.863.692.09064041 Granada Drive | P.O.Box 7245 | Indian Lake Estates, FL33855e-Mail: [email protected] or [email protected] Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ARTCommentsPosts The blog of bird photographer Arthur Morris HomeAbout Arthur MorrisArtist’s Reference & RenderingBAA Bulletins Birds As Art Bulletin ArchivesRecent Bulletin ListBAA GalleriesBAA HomeBAA IPTsBAA Online Store Image CritiquesBirdPhotographers.nete-Mail artieFine Art PrintsItems for Sale InfoLens Chart Canon Lens ChartNikon Lens ChartPostlist Postlist 2009Postlist 2010Postlist 2011Postlist 2012Postlist 2013Postlist 2014Postlist 2015Postlist 2016Postlist 2017Postlist 2018Postlist 2019StuffSubscriptions Subscribe to Blog PostsUsed Gear Sales: JAN thru SEPT 2020Used Photo Gear Older Entries »September 14th, 2022Lots on Avian Kleptoparasitism. And a Fall DeSoto IPT #1 late registration discount offer6 commentsCanon 100-400mm EF f/4.5-5.6L IS II Zoom LensBAA Record-low Price!Many multiple IPT veteran Warren Robb is offering a Canon 100-400mm EF f/4.5-5.6L IS II zoom lens in near-mint condition for a BAA record-low $1248.00. The sale includes the rear lens cap, the front lens cap, the lens case, the original product box, a digital-camo LensCoat lens cover (worn since day one), and insured ground shipping via major courier to lower-48 US addresses only.Your item will not ship until your check clears unless other arrangements are made.Please contact Warren via e-mail or by phone at 817-915-5820 (Central time zone).This incredibly versatile zoom lens — with its amazing .98 meter close focus — was my favorite Canon telephoto zoom lens ever. By far. It is easy to hand hold, great for tight portraits, for birds in flight, for quasi-macro stuff, and lots more. For flight, it is fabulous with an EOS R, R5, R6, or R7! This lens sells new for $2399.00 so you can save a handsome $1151.00 by grabbing Warren’s lens right now. artie Fort DeSoto in fall is rife with tame birds. All the images on this card were created at Fort DeSoto in either late September or very early October. I hope that you can join me there this fall. Click on the composite to enjoy a larger version.Clockwise from upper left to center: Long-billed Curlew, Marbled Godwit, Caspian Tern, Great Egret, Sandwich Tern with fish, Willet, Black-bellied Plover threat display, Snowy Egret, 2-year old Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron, juvenile Yellow-Crowned Night-Heron. The Fall 2022 Fort DeSoto Instructional Photo-ToursFall 2022 Fort DeSoto Instructional Photo-Tour #13 1/2 Days: Tuesday 27 September through the morning session on Friday 30 September 2022. $1899.00 includes three working lunches. Limit six photographers/Openings five.Fall 2022 Fort DeSoto Instructional Photo-Tour #23 1/2 Days: 7 October through the morning session on Monday 10 October 2022. $1899.00 includes three working lunches. Limit six photographers/Openings five.Fall 2022 Fort DeSoto Instructional Photo-Tour #33 1/2 Days: Monday 31 October through the morning session on Thursday 3 November 2022. $1899.00 includes three working lunches. Limit six photographers/Openings: 5.Fort DeSoto, located just south of St. Petersburg, FL, is a mecca for migrant shorebirds and terns in fall. There they join hundreds of egrets, herons, night-herons, and gulls that winter on the T-shaped peninsula. With any luck at all, we should get to photograph one of Florida’s most desirable shorebird species: Marbled Godwit. Black-bellied Plover and Willet are easy, American Oystercatcher is pretty much guaranteed. Great Egret, Snowy Egret, Great Blue Heron, Tricolored Heron, and White Ibis are easy as well and we will almost surely come up with a tame Yellow-crowned Night-Heron or two. And we will get to do some Brown Pelican flight photography. In addition, Royal, Sandwich, Forster’s, and Caspian Terns will likely provide us with some good flight opportunities as well. Though not guaranteed, Roseate Spoonbill and Wood Stork might well be expected. And we will be on the lookout for a migrant passerine fallout in the event of a thunderstorm or two. On this IPT, all will learn the basics and fine points of digital exposure. Nikon and Canon folks will learn to get the right exposure every time after making a single test exposure, and SONY folks will learn to use Zebras so that they can be sure of making excellent exposures before pressing the shutter button. Everyone will learn how to approach free and wild birds without disturbing them, to understand and predict bird behavior, to identify many species of shorebirds, to spot the good situations, to choose the best perspective, to see and understand the light, and to design pleasing images by mastering your camera’s AF system. Most importantly, you will surely learn to evaluate wind and sky conditions and understand how they affect bird photography. And you will learn how and why to work in Manual mode (even if you’re scared of it). The best news is that you will be able to take everything you learn home with you so that you will be a better photographer wherever and whenever you photograph. There will be a Photoshop/image review session during or after lunch (included) each full day. That will be followed by Instructor Nap Time.These IPTs will run with only a single registrant (though that is not likely to happen). The best airport is Tampa (TPA). Once you register, you will receive an e-mail with Gulfport AirBnB information. If you register soon and would like to share an AirBnB with me, shoot me an e-mail. Other possibilities including taking a cab to and from the airport to our AirBnB and riding with me. This saves you both gas and the cost of a rental car. A $600 deposit is due when you sign up and is payable by credit card. Balances must be paid by check two months before the trip. Your deposit is non-refundable unless the IPT sells out with six folks, so please check your plans carefully before committing. You can register by calling Jim or Jennifer during weekday business hours at 863-692-0906 with a credit card in hand, or by sending a check as follows: make the check out to: BIRDS AS ART and send it via US mail here: BIRDS AS ART, PO BOX 7245, Indian Lake Estates, FL 33855. You will receive a confirmation e-mail with detailed instructions, clothing, and gear advice. Please shoot me an e-mail if you plan to register or if you have any questions. Clockwise from upper left to center: Long-billed Curlew, juvenile Tricolored Heron, Marbled Godwits, Great Blue Heron, juvenile Pectoral Sandpiper, Wood Stork, smiling Sea Scallop, Ruddy Turnstone scavenging needlefish, Great Blue Heron sunset silhouette at my secret spot, and southbound migrant tern flock blur. Up Early, Stay Out Late!Obviously, folks attending an IPT will be out in the field early and stay late to take advantage of the sweetest light and sunrise and sunset colors (when possible). The good news is that the days are relatively short in early fall. I really love it when I am leaving the beach on a sunny morning after a great session just as a carful or two of well-rested photographers are arriving. The length of cloudy morning sessions will often be extended. Click on the composite to enjoy a larger version.Spoonbills at DeSotoOver the past years, Roseate Spoonbills have become regular visitors to Fort DeSoto Park. I know when and where to find them and can teach you to approach them successfully. Do consider joining me on a DeSoto IPT.What’s Up?I headed down to the lake in the dark on Tuesday morning and did a 2.4-mile rope flow walk. When I was done, I headed to the Vulture Trees and created 421 images and two videos, most of preening Turkey and Black Vultures. It was the first time I photographed since returning from Long Island on the first of September. I did my bursts after my nap and then an easy 1/2-mile swim. The shoulder is feeling great as I’ve gotten back to doing my hanging and stretching exercises every day. I was glad to learn of the sale of Jim Miller’s a7R IV and Don Selesky’s Canon 100-400 II, the latter before it was even listed. And I was thrilled to learn that long-ago multiple IPT veteran Greg Hritzo and wife Jenni will be joining me on the second DeSoto IPT. And Greg is thrilled to be getting back into bird photography after 15 years of abstinence. He will be trying out a Sony A1 and a variety of super-telephoto lenses. I am offering a late-registration discount on the first DeSoto IPT. Please e-mail for details. Today is Wednesday 14 September 2022. Wherever you are, and whatever you are doing, I hope that you too have a great day. This blog post took about two hours to prepare and makes one hundred seventy-three days in a row with a new one.Please remember to use the B&H and Amazon links that are found on most blog pages and to use the BIRDSASART discount code at checkout when purchasing your new gear from Bedfords to get 3% back on your credit card and enjoy free second-day air FedEx. Please, also, consider joining a BAA IPT. You will be amazed at how much you will learn! InstagramFollow me on Instagram here. I am trying to feature both new and old images, especially images that have not appeared recently on the blog. Or search for birds_as_art.BIRDS AS ART Image Optimization Service (BAA IOS)Send a PayPal for $62.00 to [email protected] or call Jim at 863-692-0906 and put $62.00 on your credit card. Pick one of your best images and upload the raw file using a large file sending service like Hightail or DropBox and then send me the link via e-mail. I will download and save your raw file, evaluate the exposure and sharpness, and optimize the image as if it were my own after converting the raw file in Adobe Camera Raw. Best of all, I will make a screen recording of the entire process and send you a link to the video to download, save and study.Induro GIT 304L Price DropAmazingly, we have two, brand-new-in-the-box Induro GIT 304L tripods in stock. They are $699.00 each (were $799.00) and the price now includes the insured ground shipping to the lower 48 states. Weekday phone orders only: 863-692-0906. Order yours here while they last. This image was created on 24 September 2020 on a Fort DeSoto IPT. Seated on damp sand I used the hand held Sony FE 600mm f/4 GM OSS lens with the Sony FE 1.4x Teleconverter, and the mega-mega-pixel a7R IV (now replaced, for me by The One, the Sony Alpha 1 Mirrorless Digital Camera.). ISO 2000. The exposure was determined by Zebras with ISO on the rear wheel: 1/1600 second at f/5.6 (wide open) in Manual mode. RawDigger showed that the exposure was perfect. AWB at 8:31:21am on a party cloudy morning. Zone/AF-C performed perfectly. Click on the image to enjoy the high-res version. Laughing Gull attempting to steal baitfish from Brown Pelican