Bird Photography Workshop
Had a great time last week hanging out with the Woodlands Photography Club. I was invited to put on a bird photography workshop including a separate class and a field trip to Brazos Bend State Park, thanks Lisa. The class covered equipment, camera settings, techniques, local locations and my golden rules. Topped it off with a slide show with some of my photos. The session ran over the 1 1/2 hour timeframe due to getting lots of questions during the presentation. I’m hoping that they picked up some new information that they can use in their photography outings.
It was a great way to spend my birthday. I’m looking forward to doing this again.
Photo Exhibition at Tommy’s Restaurant
For anyone who wants to eat some great food and check out some of my shore bird pictures, I’ve got 8 of them on display at Tommy’s Restaurant/Oyster Bar in the Clear Lake area on Bay Area Blvd, see link below. Got the opportunity through fellow Bay Area Photo Club member Peter Bowman. Thanks Peter and thanks Tom for allowing me to display my photo’s in your restaurant. All photo’s are mated in 20″ x 24″ frames and are for sale. Took the day off on Tuesday and spent a couple of hours hanging them and ate lunch there as well. The grilled shrimp po boy is to die for. They will be on display for two months until May 23.
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Bathing Long Billed Curlews
A few shots from the archives of a couple of Long Billed Curlews taking a bath at Bolivar Flats. Got fairly close to them as they were splashing away.
All taken with Canon 7D and 100-400 lens on ground pod
1/1250 sec @ F5.6, +1 exp comp, ISO 250, spot metering
1/800 sec @ F5.6, +1 exp comp, ISO 250, spot metering
1/320 sec @ F7.1, +1 exp comp, ISO 250, spot metering
1/800 sec @ F5.6, +1 exp comp, ISO 200, evaluative metering
1/16000 sec @ F5.6, +1 exp comp, ISO 200, evaluative metering
GRAPHIC – Feeding Raptor
Found this hawk feeding away on a rodent at Anahuac NWR. These shots were taken out the car window and was able to get very close to him. He was more interested in eating breakfast than me taking his picture. I screwed up and had my camera set to +1 exp compensation for flight shots and didn’t adjust it until later in this series. Got several shots that were too blown out on the whites. Should have known better but got a little excited coming upon this scene that I didn’t pay enough attention to what I was doing. Also had to change memory cards. There were lots of weeds around him and some of the best graphic shots have too many weeds in front of him. Still a good time and even got some shots of him cleaning his talons. A car came by and spooked him which allowed for some full frame flight shots.
All taken with Canon 7d and 100-400 lens, hand held out the car window
1/800 sec @ F5.6, +1 exp comp., ISO 320, spot metering, no flash
1/800 sec @ F6.3, +2/3 exp comp., ISO 250, spot metering, no flash
1/800 sec @ F6.3, +2/3 exp comp., ISO 250, spot metering, no flash
1/1600 sec @ F6.3, +1/3 exp comp., ISO 250, spot metering, no flash
1/2,000 sec @ F7.1, +1/3 exp comp., ISO 250, spot metering, no flash
Brazos Bend at Sunrise
Made another road trip to Brazos Bend State Park last weekend. Not much happening there but still a good time to get out. Tried sitting down on the bank with the tripod and was able to get the Grebe with wings spread
All taken with Canon 7D and 100-400 lens
1/2000 sec @ F5.6, ISO 400, spot metering, no flash
1/2000 sec @ F5.6, ISO 400, spot metering, no flash
1/2500 sec @ F5.6, ISO 250, spot metering, no flash
1/640 sec @ F5.6, ISO 400, + 2/3 exposure comp., spot metering, no flash
1/1250 sec @ F5.6, ISO 400, + 2/3 exp. comp, spot metering, flash @ -3 stops with better beamer
Snowy Egret Fishing
From the 2010 archives, here is a series of shots taken at Bolivar Flats of a Snowy Egret fishing. This was a great day at Bolivar with Snowy’s and Reddish Egrets everywhere. Haven’t seen this much concentrated activity since then.
Taken with Canon 7D and 100-400 lens on ground pod
1/3,200 to 1/5,000 sec @F5.6, + 2/3 exp. comp, ISO 200, spot metering, no flash
Willet
A few Willet shots from a recent trip to Bolivar Flats with Sheldon. Trying to go back as much as possible before it gets too warm to wear the waders. Took these shortly after the sun came up. Got a few decent reflection shots from a standing position but liked the colors much better after getting down low. Got good color reflecting from the shoreline.
All taken with Canon 7D and 100-400 lens on ground pod.
1/16oo sec @ F5.6, +2/3 exp comp, ISO 250, spot metering, no flash (it broke)
1/8oo sec @ F5.6, +2/3 exp comp, ISO 250, spot metering, no flash (it broke)
1/8oo sec @ F5.6, +2/3 exp comp, ISO 250, spot metering, no flash (it broke)
1/16oo sec @ F5.6, +2/3 exp comp, ISO 250, spot metering, no flash (it broke)
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