BIRDS AS ART BULLETIN #461

• St. Augustine Alligator Farm IPT Report
• The New Essence of the St. Augustine Alligator Farm: Roseate SpoonBILL
• Silhouette Soup From a Stone
• Speaking of Spoonbills
• The Weather and the Food
• Fort DeSoto IPT Report
• Digital Creations Voting Continues Today
• Selling Your Used Photo Gear Through BIRDS AS ART
• Used Photography Gear Page
• UK Puffins and Gannets IPT July 2-9, 2014
• Jim Neiger West Coast Flight Workshops, July 2014, Orange County, California
• Flight Plan eGuide

This image was created on the St. Augustine Alligator Farm IPT on a mostly sunny early morning with the Canon EF 200-400mm f/4L IS USM Lens with Internal 1.4x Extender (hand held with the internal TC in place at 560mm) and the Canon EOS-1D X. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1/3 stop as framed: 1/160 sec. at f/10 in Av mode. AWB. 61-Point/AI Servo/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure performed perfectly selecting a tight cluster of sensors on the bird’s upper bill. Learning which AF Area Selection mode to use in different situations helps you maximize the efficiency of the great AF systems of the 1D X and 5D III. Learn everything that I know about the various AF Area Selection Modes, when to use which one, several ways to move the AF sensor, and tons more in the 1D X AF Guide and the 5D Mark III User’s Guide. Click here to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. . Roseate Spoonbill vertical front-end portrait I have three problems with this image. If you think that you know what any of them are, please feel free to leave a comment. I will respond.

St. Augustine Alligator Farm IPT Report

It’s All About Spoonbills!

Co-leader Denise Ippolito and I were joined by the very pleasant Catherine Costolo of Atlanta. With 2 great leaders and only 1 participant she was in learner’s heaven. St. Augustine this year was very much about spoonbills. Their were courting pairs right next to the boardwalk, fledged but not flying young, and half-grown and tiny chicks in many nests. As spoonbills tend to nest in well protected situations photographing the smalls chicks was close to an impossible task. As is expected at St. Augustine, there were lots of flight photography opportunities especially in the afternoon. There were lots of nesting Wood Storks, Tricolored Herons, and Snowy Egrets. Cattle Egrets were in short supply and those that were nesting were totally buried.

The New Essence of the St. Augustine Alligator Farm: Roseate SpoonBILL

You can learn more about conditions at St. Augustine and check out one of my all time favorite images in the “The New Essence of the St. Augustine Alligator Farm: Roseate SpoonBILL” blog post by clicking here.

This image was also created on the St. Augustine Alligator Farm IPT, this one at 8pm with the hand held Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens, the Canon Extender EF 1.4X III, and the Canon EOS-1D X. ISO 1600. Evaluative metering at zero: 1/4000 sec. at f/3 in Av mode. AWB. 61-Point/AI Servo/Rear Focus AF active at the moment of exposure performed perfectly selecting a tight cluster of 3 sensors in the upper right-hand corner of the grid the fell on the middle of the the bird’s bill as framed. Learning which AF Area Selection mode to use in different situations helps you maximize the efficiency of the great AF systems of the 1D X and 5D III. Learn everything that I know about the various AF Area Selection Modes, when to use which one, several ways to move the AF sensor, and tons more in the 1D X AF Guide and the 5D Mark III User’s Guide. Click here to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. Roseate Spoonbill silhouette

Silhouette Soup From a Stone

Don’t ask me why ISO 1600. Don’t ask me why 1/4000 sec. Don’t ask me why “at zero.” I am not sure why I screwed all of those up so badly, but I was thinking creatively at the time. I knew that there was a good silhouette there despite the fact that there was no strong backlight at all. I did most of the dirty work during the RAW conversion in DPP and put the finishing touches on the B&W look with a Levels Adjustment in Photoshop 6.

Speaking of Spoonbills

You can learn of a dramatic rescue of baby spoonbills at the St. Augustine Alligator Farm by clicking here.

The DPP RAW Conversion Guide

To learn why I use Canon’s Digital Photo Professional (DPP) to convert every image that I work on, click here. To convert this originally boring image I went to +.33 on the Brightness adjustment, +2 with the Contrast slider, +5 with the Highlight Slider, and -5 with the Shadow slider. And I set Peripheral illumination on the Lens Aberration correction tab to 100 to eliminate the expected vignetting. I have never even tried that before but it worked perfectly.

Digital Basics

Everything that I did to optimize the spoonbill silouette in Photoshop is detailed in my Digital Basics File–written in my easy-to-follow, easy-to-understand style. Are you tired of making your images look worse in Photoshop? Digital Basics File is an instructional PDF that is sent via e-mail. It includes my complete digital workflow, dozens of great Photoshop tips, the use of Contrast Masks, several different ways of expanding and filling in canvas, all of my time-saving Keyboard Shortcuts, Quick Masking, Layer Masking, and NIK Color Efex Pro basics, my killer image clean-up techniques, Digital Eye Doctor, creating time-saving actions, and lots more.

The Weather and the Food

Though the weather was sunny with blue skies; we never saw a cloud until the last afternoon. Many would think that these were perfect conditions but the wind directions made things extremely difficult: west winds in the mornings and east winds in the afternoons found the birds landing, taking off, and facing away from us and the light (with the sun properly at our backs….) None-the-less Catherine learned a ton and we all made lots of great images. Food at the Gyspy Cab Company was superb as usual; both the Bahamian Clam Chowder and the Cod Santa Cruz were amazingly delicious. The latter was not on the menu every day but it is worth asking for. They always made it for me upon request.

Catherine, who wound up purchasing Peter Kes’s 400 DO–it’s a great lightweight telephoto lens, sent this via e-mail:

Hey, Artie! The IPT was great and I will definitely send you 5 images as soon as I go through them again. You and Denise were fun to be with and I learned so much! The two of you make a good team! I look forward to using my new lens! Catherine

This image was created on the Fort DeSoto IPT at 5:45pm on a bright sunny afternoon with the Gitzo 3532 LS carbon fiber tripod, the Mongoose M3.6 head, the Canon EF 600mm f/4L IS II USM lens, the Canon Extender EF 2X III, and the Canon EOS-1D X. ISO 400. Evaluative metering +1/3 stop as framed: 1/1000 sec. at f/11 in Av mode. AWB. Central Sensor (by necessity)/Expand/AI Servo/Rear Focus AF just above the bend of the wing was active at the moment of exposure. When I add the 2XIII TC to an f/4 lens with the 1DX or the 5D III I hit the MFn button once to toggle to AF Expand and enjoy 4 extra AF sensors with Expand. Learn everything there is to know about the 1D X and 5D III AF systems including how to manage the various AF Area Selection Modes, when to use which one, and several ways to move the AF sensor around in the 1D X AF Guide and the 5D Mark III User’s Guide. Click here to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. Least Tern with tiny baitfish for courtship ceremony

The Fort DeSoto IPT Report

As Denise had a private client, BAA-friend and multiple IPT veteran Brent Bridges, I was technically the sole leader on this IPT. I was joined by Mary Anderson of Fairway, KS, a suburb of Kansas City. Mary, a professed beginning photographer, showed up with a 200-400 with Internal Extender and a 1D X…. She was a nice as could be–she cleaned the love bugs off the windshield when I stopped for gas of her own free will and volition–and she was very eager to learn. She asked a ton of questions. And got them all answered in spades. It seemed that she best absorbed the lessons as we chatted on our drives to and from the park. As it turned out, the two small groups, Denise and Brent and Mary and I, spent a good deal of time together in the field, often photographing the same birds. It was fun and mutually beneficial. See more on Denise as a co-leader below.

I had heard a report that there “were no birds at DeSoto, especially on weekends.” That did not turn out to be the case at all. Though there were surely fewer birds than you would typically expect in spring, and though we saw a grand total of 1 Royal Tern on the beach where large flocks would normally be expected, we enjoyed high quality virtually non-stop photographic opportunities. The subjects? Laughing Gulls. Great Blue Heron. (See “The Amazing Canon 300mm F/2.8L IS USM Lens/Part I of a Series: The Prime Lens Alone” for some great stuff on those two species.) Many species of shorebirds including Black-bellied Plover, Dunlin, Short-billed Dowitcher, Sanderling (see “A Single Day on the Fort DeSoto IPT: One thousand nine hundred sixty one images/Three hundred forty three Keepers), Willet, Ruddy Turnstone, Semipalmated Plover, Wilson’s Plover, and two highly desirable species, Marbled Godwit and American Oystercatcher. On our last afternoon we killed on Reddish Egret and Tricolored Heron in mega-breeding plumage. We did great on nesting Least Terns and with a Yellow-crowned Night-Heron in one of the exact spots noted in the Fort DeSoto Site Guide. See two great yellow-crowned images in the “Teleconvrrter Versatility” blog post here. We encountered several ridiculously tame Common Mergansers, a few Snowy Egrets, and a Great Egret or two. And more than a few White Ibises.

There will be lots more DeSoto images on the blog in the coming weeks.

This image was also created on the DeSoto IPT, this one on a cloudy morning 8pm with the hand held Canon EF 300mm f/2.8L IS II USM lens, the Canon Extender EF 2X III, and the Canon EOS-1D X. ISO 800. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop: 1/640 sec. at f/10 in Av mode. AWB. One sensor to the right of the Central Sensor/AI Servo Surround/Rear Focus AF squarely on the front bird’s breast was active at the moment of exposure. Learning which AF Area Selection mode to use in different situations helps you maximize the efficiency of the great AF systems of the 1D X and 5D III. Learn everything that I know about the various AF Area Selection Modes, when to use which one, several ways to move the AF sensor, and tons more in the 1D X AF Guide and the 5D Mark III User’s Guide. Click here to see the latest version of the Rear Focus Tutorial. Click on the image to see a larger version. Breeding (front) and non-breeding (rear) Short-billed Dowitchers

Follow-up from Mary Anderson

Mary wrote via e-mail:

Artie, Thanks for such a great weekend. My flight is delayed, delayed, delayed. I am sitting in plane on the runway reading and re-reading Digital Basics. I will be working on my images when i get home. I look forward to sharing some images with you and getting your advice. You have moved into my head; whenever i look at my camera or images I hear your voice reminding me of this or that. And that’s a task in and of itself. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your time. I really appreciate it. Thanks once again. I’ll keep in touch and see you again sometime. Peace. Mary

Digital Creations Voting Continues Today

Join in the fun by voting on the Digital Creations Category of the BIRDS AS ART 2nd International Bird Photography Competition by clicking here. As with the Pleasing Blurs category, the public vote in Digital Creations bears little to no resemblance to the results of the judges voting. It seems likely that this will be the secoond category in which the public’s favorite will not match the judge’s first choice. Thirteen strong images made it to the final round in this category. Do take a peek.

Selling Your Used Photo Gear Through BIRDS AS ART

Selling your used (or like-new) photo gear through the BAA Blog or via a BAA Online Bulletin is a great idea. We charge only a 5% commission. One of the more popular used gear for sale sites charges a minimum of 20% plus assorted fees! Yikes. The minimum item price here is $500 (or less for a $25 fee). If you are interested please e-mail with the words Items for Sale Info Request cut and pasted into the Subject line :). Stuff that is priced fairly–I offer free pricing advise, usually sells in no time flat as did Dennis Cassidy’s 500 II recently on the blog. Larry Master’s 400 DO and his 800 f/5.6 sold within a week. From Larry via e-mail: Thanks for helping me sell the lenses so quickly!

A Creative Adventure/BIRDS AS ART friend Kitto Kono sold her Nikon 500 to a Blog subscriber in less than a week. Janet Horton’s 7D sold this week after a $100 price reduction and Doug Bolt’s sold for the asking price. Denise Ippolito’s 100-400 and her 100 macro sold in one day. Peter Kes sold his 70-200 f/2.8L IS II and his 400 DO through BAA in ten days. In the past two months we have sold a Canon 800, a Canon 500 II, 3 400 DO lenses, a Nikon 500mm, and lots more. If you are interested in using our services, please e-mail.

Used Photography Gear Page

Eagle-eyed blog readers may have noticed that there is a link to the Used Photography Gear page on the yellow tool bar at the top of each blog page. Folks looking to buy (or to sell) can click on that tab or here. I will on occasion continue to list new gear and great buys in blog posts and in Bulletins and may on rare occasion share all the listings with you on the blog (as I have done below in this Bulletin. I will strive to keep the listings current. Great news for Kitty Kono and her Nikon 400mm f/2.8; it sold yesterday! That made her 2 for 2 on selling her older Nikon super-telephotos with BAA.

Used Canon Gear for Sale

Used Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM Lens for Sale/Price Reduced $300!

Multiple IPT veteran Bill Wingfield is offering a Canon 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM lens in excellent condition for $1125! The glass is clean and the lens is in perfect working condition. The sale includes the lens hood, the fabric case, and insured shipping by UPS Ground to US addresses only. Personal checks only; your new lens will be shipped after your check clears.

For more than a decade I used the 100-400 to create hundreds of sharp, sale-able image. It is a very versatile lens.

You can reach Bill via e-mail or by phone at 843-729-6670.

Used Canon 800mm f/5.6L IS Lens for Sale

Multiple IPT veteran, the too-kind Jim Bicket, is offering a Canon EF 800mm f/5.6L IS USM lens in excellent condition for $8750. The lens is like new except for some wear on the bottom of the lens hood near the forward edge when the hood is reversed. The sales includes the LensCoat that has protected the lens since day 1, the leather hood, the original hard case and key, and insured shipping via UPS Ground to US addresses only. Personal checks only; your new lens will be shipped only after your check clears.

This great lens, my favorite for 3 years, sells new at B&H for $13,999.00. A month ago B&H was offering one in mint condition for a ridiculous $10,249.90; it sold overnight. Go figure. Jim’s lens will save you a ton of dough and you will have a great lens with lots of reach.

Interested folks can contact Jim via e-mail or try him at 501-915-9336.

Used EOS-5D Mark II for Sale/Price Reduced $100!

Doug Bolt’s 400 DO sold early last week. Doug is offering a used EOS-5D Mark II in very good to excellent condition for $1099! There is a shallow scratch on the body and a faint smudge on the top LCD. The sale includes a RRS L-plate, an off-brand vertical grip, and the original box and all the stuff that came in it. The seller will pay shipping to US addresses only. This one is a great body for flowers and landscapes. Mine saved me on a Southern Oceans cruise when I trashed two EOS-1D Mark IV bodies in a rainstorm; it was a great back-up camera body. The item will ship only when the check clears.

Please contact Doug for a link to photos of the camera and for additional info via e-mail or try him by phone at home: at 301-937-3112 or on his cell at 301-537-8073.

EOS-1D Mark IV

BAA friend Nancy Bell is offering a used Canon EOS-1D Mark IV camera body for sale for $3200. The body is in excellent condition. It enjoyed annual routine cleaning and service at a Canon Factory Service Center; the last one was done on 5/30/13. The sale includes the original box, battery charger, 3 Canon batteries, the instruction manual, all connection cables, a Canon neck strap, and insured Fed-Ex Ground shipping to US addresses only.

Payment by personal or teller’s check; the item will ship item only after the check clears. Please contact Nancy via e-mail or by phone at 970-484-8791–Colorado, MDT.

Canon 400mm f/4 DO IS Lens

BAA friend Nancy Bell is also offering a used Canon 400mm f/4 DO IS USM lens for sale for only $4499. The lens is in very good to excellent condition with some minor blemishes on the exterior finish and some signs of wear on lens hood interior rim. The glass is perfect and he lens is both light and sharp. The last yearly routine cleaning and service at a Canon Factory Service Center was on 5/30/13.

The sale includes the leather lens hood, the lens trunk, and insured Fed-Ex Ground shipping to US addresses only.

Payment by personal or teller’s check; the item will ship item only after the check clears. Please contact Nancy via e-mail or by phone at 970-484-8791–Colorado, MDT.

I hope that you can join us on this great trip. The vertical puffin image was created by David Tipling. The rest–almost all from the UK, are mine :). Click on the composite to enjoy the larger size.

UK Puffins and Gannets IPT July 2-9, 2014. 5 full days of puffins and two half-days of gannet boat photography: $4,999 USD. Limit 10 + the 2 leaders.

Desperately needed: 1 female roommate. Call or e-mail for female roommate-needed discount info. Because of limited room availability the last day for a guy to register is this coming Thursday, May 22.

Fly to Edinburgh (say “ED-in-BUR-row”), Scotland on a red eye flight on July 1st arriving on the early morning of July 2 or certainly before 10am. UK folks who plan on driving please contact me via e-mail immediately.

There are direct flights to Edinburgh from both Philadelphia and Toronto. If you learn of any others please advise via e-mail so that I may share with all the interested folks. Fly home mid-morning on July 9. UK locals and our many European friends are of course welcome.

With the needed 5 deposits in hand, this trip is a go; you can buy your flights now :).

What’s included:

5 full DAYS on the best UK puffin boat; trips to 2 different islands–all dependent on decent weather, i.e, no major storms. Seabirds including scads of Atlantic Puffin both in flight and perched, Razorbill, Great Cormorant, Shag, and others likely. The trip is times to maximize the opportunities for photographing the puffins bringing fish back to the nests. All boat fares and landing fees are included. The boat leaves at 9:30am. We have two hours on the first island. We are then picked up and head to the 2nd island for a 2+ hour session. The weather is typically cloudy bright.

One late-afternoon (2 July) and one early morning (probably 8 July) trip on a gannet photography boat where the birds are fed and dive very close to the boat. Both are dependent on good weather but we do have some flexibility. Boat fares and the cost of the fish are covered. Each will consist of a one hour outbound ride, two hours of diving Northern Gannet photography (with 6 boxes of fish) and the one hour return trip.

The tentative, weather-dependent itinerary:

July 2: airport pick-up no later than 10am UK time. Lunch on your dime. Drive to hotel. Afternoon gannet boat trip/time TBD.
July 3, 4, 5, 6, & 7: Full Day Puffin Boat trips as noted above.
July 8: early morning Gannet Boat trip. Afternoon: Small group Image review and Photoshop sessions. Pack for the trip home.
July 9: early morning departure for Edinburgh Airport (EDI).

The itinerary is subject to change to ensure the best possible photographic opportunities.

A super-telephoto lens is not required on this trip. The 300mm f/2.8s are ideal. I will be bringing one along with my 200-400mm with Internal Extender, my 70-200 f/2.8L IS II, and a shorter zoom lenses. Plus three 1.4X and two 2X TCs, a Gitzo 3532 LS Carbon Fiber tripod, and my Mongoose M3.6. I may go tripod-less on the puffin trips at times…. Or not…. All photography on the gannet boat will be hand held. It is likely that the 70-200s will be ideal for the gannets.

7 nights lodging in an older but excellent hotel just a few minutes from the puffin boat dock with about a 70 minute ride to the gannet boat. Double occupancy will be the rule though we might be able to offer a single supplement at an exorbitant price. See the hotel info here.

All breakfasts and dinner (at the hotel) from dinner on July 2 through dinner on July 8. And breakfast on our get-away day unless we need to leave earlier than they serve to make our flights home…

Airport pick-up until 10am on July 2–this should not be a problem as there are lots of red-eye flights from the US to Edinburgh.

All ground transportation. Airport return on the early morning of July 9. We may be getting up very early on July 9th.

Two great leaders; Denise Ippolito and yours truly will provide personalized and small group in-the-field instruction. As usual, the closer you stay to us and the more questions that you ask the more you will learn. We will of course point out the best situations. You will learn to see these great situations for yourself, to get the right exposure every time after making a single test exposure, to work in Manual mode, and to design pleasing images by mastering your camera’s AF system. You will learn the basics of photographing birds in flight and how the relationship between light direction and wind direction impacts the photography of both birds in flight and perched puffins. And tons more.

We will be conducting informal, small group image review and Photoshop sessions after dinner. All are invited to bring their laptops. Image critiques of your five best images will be done after the trip upon request.

Early morning castle photography right near the hotel is an option for the early risers. In the event of inclement weather or stormy seas there is the possibility of bird photography along the coast. Early evening bird photography along the coast is also optional.

Not included: all lunches–for the most part we will need to pack lunches for the puffin trips, or you may opt to skip lunch. Your round trip airfare from home to Scotland. Booze, wine, and any other beverages other than coffee and tea at breakfast.

A non-refundable deposit of $2,000 USD is required to hold your spot so please check on flights and your schedule before committing. The balance will be due on 15 May so you may wish to pay the whole thing at once. Overseas folks may e-mail for wire transfer info. Our $15 wire transfer fee will be added to your balance.

Trip insurance is highly recommended as your deposit (less a $200 cancellation fee) will not be refunded unless the trip fills completely. I, and my family, use Travel Insurance Services.

After letting us know via e-mail that you will be coming, please send your deposit check made out to “Arthur Morris” to us as follows:

Arthur Morris/BIRDS AS ART
PO Box 7245 (US mail) or 4041 Granada Drive (if by courier).
Indian Lake Estates, FL 33855

My friend David Tipling, with multiple BBC honored images and the author of dozens of photo illustrated books, helped with the planning and arrangements for this trip.

If you have any questions, please contact me via e-mail.

Elegant Tern flipping fish. Image copyright 2013: Jim Neiger/Flight School Photography

Jim Neiger West Coast Flight Workshops, July 2014, Orange County, California

Join Veolia-BBC award-winning photographers, Jim Neiger and Doug Brown, in July, 2014 for a workshop focusing on birds in flight. We’ve selected the area around Huntington Beach, California for its incredible number and variety of birds, not to mention the great weather! In July, Terns will number in the tens of thousands, and there should be no fewer than five different species (Elegant, Forster’s, Caspian, Royal, and Least). Black Skimmers, Pelicans, Egrets, Herons, and Gulls will all be plentiful. There will also be opportunities to photograph more challenging subjects such as raptors, Kingfishers, and shorebirds. These workshops are filled with non stop flight action. If you wish to learn the best techniques for photographing birds in flight, followed by unlimited opportunities to practice these techniques and develop the skills required to consistently photograph birds in flight, then this is the workshop for you.

The focus of the workshops will be on mastering the hand held, long lens technique favored by both Jim and Doug. Manual exposure for birds in flight will also be emphasized. There will be an instructional lecture on the first day, followed by morning and afternoon sessions in the field for each of the next three days.

As an added feature, you will have the opportunity to hone your Lightroom and Photoshop skills with Jim and Doug during the free time in between field sessions. The workshop will be limited to twelve participants; with two expert instructors available, everyone will receive plenty of individualized attention both in the field and the classroom.

Workshop Dates:

Workshop WCF-1: July 5-8, 2014
Workshop WCF-1: July 9-12, 2014

Workshop Cost and payment: The cost of each workshop is $1300 per person. Each workshop includes a half day formal classroom instruction session, a morning photography session, and an afternoon photography session, each of the remaining days. The photography sessions include personalized instruction in the field. A $650 non-refundable deposit is required for the workshops. The remaining $650 is due 30 days before the start date of the workshop. If you are unable to attend the workshop after paying the balance, the balance payment will be refunded ONLY if your spot can be filled on short notice from the waiting list. All workshop payments must be made by check or money order. Credit cards are not accepted.

Please make checks payable to Doug Brown and send them to: Doug Brown, 13705 Elena Gallegos Pl. NE., Albuquerque, NM 87111

Participant Requirements:

Participants should have working knowledge of how to create a properly exposed image, a telephoto lens of 400mm or more (300mm with a teleconverter is acceptable), and be physically capable of holding their camera and lens up to their eye in shooting position for at least 20 seconds. Participants must also have a vehicle to travel to and from the photography locations.

Learn more here.

Flight School Custom Anytime Workshops

Learn about Jim’s Flight School Custom Anytime Workshops here.

Contact Information

Contact Information: Jim Neiger, Flight School Photography, Inc. 550 Basin Drive, Kissimmee, FL 34744-4804
Cell phone: (407) 247-5200. e-mail.

Flight School website.

Flight Plan

I can say without a doubt that after spending more than two months (part time) editing Jim Neiger’s great e-Guide, Flight Plan, that my flight photography has improved by leaps and bound whether I am working off a tripod or hand holding. His explanation of the bumping the focus technique finally sunk in. Learning to use this technique regularly is a huge help for any all types of flight photography.

You can learn more about Flight Plan here or order a copy by clicking here.

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