Wulff

Recent post of Jays on FB reminded me to pop in here.

 

Curretly shooting with.

1DMKIIn

1DMKIV

24-70mm f2.8 L

85mm f1.2 L

180 f3.5 Macro

400mm f5.6 L

500mm F4 L

1.4 TC

56mm In ext tubes

 

More gadgets, do dads and accessories than I care to list.

 

Pic of whats currently loaded in my pack for the migratory Steel season

Steve pretty much what Thresher said.

 

1) Tripod, hopefully its sturdy you dont want vibrations from wind etc as you will be doing 30 second and longer exposures. You can do shorter exposures but then your trying to anticipate the "fireworks". Best to open the shutter......and then close it when *you* want.

 

2) Hence the need for a cable release. If you dont have one and dont want to spend the $100 or so getting it, you'll want to use a) Bulb and B, 30 to 45 second exposures, the self timer function to open the shutter. In this way your forcing the camera to start the exposure ( self timer) and your sensor will collect light for the next 30, 45 or however many seconds you tell it to stay open before needing to repeat the process. Bulb is a setting much like M, Av, TV etc. Check the 20D manual, not sure how to set it, but I know its available.

 

3) F8 to F11 for your aperture

 

4) Framing. Generally speaking its nice to include some skyline features ( buildings, a bridge etc) but not neccessary. Try getting both.

Steve pretty much what Thresher said.

 

1) Tripod, hopefully its sturdy you dont want vibrations from wind etc as you will be doing 30 second and longer exposures. You can do shorter exposures but then your trying to anticipate the "fireworks". Best to open the shutter......and then close it when *you* want.

 

2) Hence the need for a cable release. If you dont have one and dont want to spend the $100 or so getting it, you'll want to use a) Bulb 30 to 45 second exposures, the self timer function to open the shutter. In this way your forcing the camera to start the exposure ( self timer) and your sensor will collect light for the next 30, 45 or however many seconds you tell it to stay open before needing to repeat the process

 

3) F8 to F11 for your aperture

 

4) Framing. Generally speaking its nice to include some skyline features ( buildings, a bridge etc) but not neccessary. Try getting both.

Lyn what Thresher said about metering the sky.

 

Brother Blue sky, and Brother green (foliage)

 

Eaiser to use manual though. Meter the sky, set your exposure and then recompose. All my sky shots are done that way, the only variable to that is whether I add a ND or not. Then I meter the foreground to determine my exposure value and the ND holds back the sky

Nice John, they are great waders to watch.

Some of you have seen these aleswhere, some of you haven't so here you go.

I love this place. I first started going there around the age of 5 or 6 after ice out for trout openers with my Dad, then later in my teens on my own tripping. Try to go atleast once a year. This year I'm hoping to go 3 times.

 

Copied from elsewhere...I'm too lazy to retype everything

 

 

Anticipation of things to come

 

The sound of a babbling brook below a Beaver dam

 

A cooling dip

 

A little sip

 

Yours truly taking it in, could not care less how cold the water was or the Black flies making a meal of me

 

What trip would be complete without one sunset photo

 

Serenity

 

Tranquility

 

Solitude

 

Maid of the mist

 

What you looking at

 

 

How bad were the Black Flies?

Bad, as you can see here, they are all over this Bull's Antlers which they are drawn to due the copious amounts of blood in them as they start their new growth

 

nor are these dust specks caught in the back light

 

If your interested in seeing the gallery go here, if you like it leave a comment

http://jben.zenfolio.com/p75141685

 

As all good things must come to end, so to does this thread.

Love the Tiger Jay

Thanks guys, took a couple days to reply to process pics my trip into the bush.

Might just take you up on that J, if not this year maybe next. Been dreaming about it for years, Grand Teton, Yellowstone, Utah, Montanna, Idaho..close my eyes and throw a dart

 

figure it's time to do it.

 

Steel, yeah thats Barrand in the kilt

Been super busy. Life threw me a couple curve balls this spring, so I've been throwing myself into photography

Not a bad trade off . A week hasn't gone by since Trout Openers where I haven't been doing something.

 

I did Trout Openers

 

 

 

 

 

I've started paying more time to landscape photography. My mentor in the OWC is psuhing me to do more and to get an agency. He likes what I have but I don't have enough. So free time has been spent trying to develop an eye for Landscapes, which imo Im weak at and living in boring Ontario doesn't help. Im seriously jealous of anyone who lives west of the great lakes. So much so I'm squirreling money aside to see if I can arrane a trip or two outwest ( BC, Montana, Utah) where landscape opportunities are whereever you happen to turn your head.

 

 

 

 

 

I've also been doing my usual event photogrpahy.

 

Did a Spey Clave

 

 

 

 

 

 

Did my first Tourney of the year, the AYA 2009 which is an event held simultaneously across North America for youth.

 

 

 

 

 

Have even manged to find a little time to do some fishing myself.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 30 mintes I leave for the deep woods (Algonquin Park) for a few days of looking for Moose and getting eaten alive. Next weekend I'm off to Montreal to cover another tourney the weekend after that BASS opens. God only knows when I'll get back on the water myself and toss a few dries

 

Never enough time in ones life.

Grats.

 

J

Sweeet stuff Andrew.

 

J

What Ben said Monty. Read it carefully. I'll also echo getting Bryan Petersons "understanding" exposure.

 

To me it all about "light".

Whats the difference between this

 

or this

 

and a million other "duck flapping their wings" shots?

 

or this

 

this

 

and this

 

What one element makes those 1st two photos so much more interesting and captivating than the 3rd

Which if it hadn't been done as part of an event job I do would have been deleted during my first cull once I'm home?

 

Its all about the light.

Once you begin to "understand' light, see light your photos will start to improve dramatically no matter what camera, lens you use.

 

 

This just got published as a full page colour. What does it really have going for it?

My Easter weekend treasure hunt.

 

Friday. In search of Tom

 

3:15am

Alarm goes off, quick shower, out the door at 3:30 am. Gas up and Timmies (Tim Hortons), then white line fever for 1.5 hours, in order to meet a friend at 5am. In the field by 5:30ish raring to go and see some Toms.

 

6:30am, with false dawn in full swing we had our first semi visible visitors,a pair of Yotes. Had to work on this in Photo Shop just to make it half way decent. It was about 300/400 feet away and there was so little light this was shot at 1/8th of a second at 700mm

 

7:00am We got some Gobbles, but the Toms weren't showing themselves, so we took some pics of the "hunters."

yours truly

 

10am: Toms we're no shows, so we eventually moved on, in part to scout for Toms in nearby filds, in part to find something/anythng to shoot.

 

We found some Ospreys

 

And some Woodies

 

We did see some Toms but I wasn't ableto "convert" so here's some Toms I have gotten recently for anyone thats heading out in the next two weeks or so.

 

 

 

Saturday

I found some Shovelers

 

 

Sunday

A Canada

 

A Mallard

 

And more Woodies

 

And because this is one of my favorite shots of late

 

A mini Rocket coming at ya. Don't know if anyones familiar with Buffle heads but these guys are low flying cruise missiles. Tough to get at the best of times, let alone coming right at ya

 

 

In 9 days I should be giving the long lens a rest and concentrating finally after a gruelling 7.5 months fishing seasons begin to open again.

 

 

Big grats Jay.

Composites arent really anything I play with. That said I'm wonderingif it might be easier to reverse everyones thinking here. Rather than compositing the smaller face onto the much larger body. Mightn't itbe easier/better to composite the larger body onto the smaller face and then upsample?

 

 

 

Great

 

email it to [email protected].

 

It's a great shot Jim, but there are just some thing you can't control going on with it, most of which are a result of the lighting present. I hae some software and tricks that may be able to touch it up for you so you'll have a shot you could print as a poster.

 

 

Jim the last one has some really good potential but it's suffering a bit from typical problems encounted on grey days without much light. No way to know for sure without seeing it, but if you want to send me the full file I *may* be able work with it and spit something out you'll want to hang on your wall. Just thought I'd throw it out there.

 

J

Already ordered a 70-150 zoom

 

lol, bitten already.

 

Wait for the day when you have to explain to your wife, why it is your children are using your lens boxes as play houses.

sweet Jay

Nice shot Ben.

Still waiting for my first Cane

Thanks all.

Rich probably averaged 30-50feet. I was usually backing up as I didnt want to clip wings when it tok off.

 

Heres a few more

 

 

Probably my favorite

Grats Jay.

I know you'll love it

Great stuff Matt

Thanks guys.

 

Handheld Peter, its a big reason why this was my lens of choice. It is a beast at 9 pounds and change, and wih the 1D the rigs close to 13pounds, but it is hand hold able and has IS to help.

It took 3 years of saving what I could, and putting every penny from every photo sale aside. So today I have 500 reasons to smile. Even better though, like any person who gets a new lens you just want to shoot anything, anything at all on the day you get it. Normally its nothing special.

 

Well I was treated to a once in a lifetime opportunity. A mature Red Tail who didn't mind my presence. Normally a soon as you open the car door they take off like bats out of hell. In all I got about 200 full frame images of him.

 

I'll remember this day forever.