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Getting bird photos on Florida road trip
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made a crazy road trip to Florida last week to scout new locations for a
workshop next year. I headed out on Tuesday from New Jersey and came
back Sunday, driving over 3,000 miles. While I was there I concentrated
on photographing birds, specifically big ones on the nest. I went to a
couple of cool rookeries with easy access and got some pretty fun photos.
Check out the photo gallery and a couple of blog posts.
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the way back from Florida, I stopped in Savannah, GA, Saturday night.
What a cool city. It has been a while since I have been there and it has
grown. But they have kept the riverfront and downtown the way it should
be. It is packed with great architecture, unique parks and the
spookiest cemetery I’ve seen. I went the to famous cemetery for sunrise
Sunday, but it was cloudy and rainy, so I didn’t get any cool shots of
the sunlight streaming through the Spanish moss hanging off the trees.
But the cloudy, wet morning made for some interesting shots. See a photo gallery from Savannah.
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workshop to a week later. Everybody who signed up is OK with moving the
date, so we will be gathering in Woodstock, VT on April 19-21. There is
still time to sign up and if you aren’t in the Woodstock area, I have
room at the house so can save you on hotel fare.
This will be a fun workshop focusing more on thinking about what to shoot than on f/stops and shutter speeds. |
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Blue Hour: When I was in Savannah, I got there late in the day, didn't have much time to shoot and the weather was lousy, cloudy and spitting rain. When I find myself in that situation, I make use of what is known as the "Blue Hour." Twice each day, there is a period of about 30 minutes when the sky turns deep blue in photos. It starts in the evening about 15 minutes after sunset and in the morning it ends about 15 minutes before sunrise. Most people don't notice it because our eyes adjust for it but the camera captures it, no matter whether the sky is clear or cloudy. The Blue Hour has bailed me out on several occasions when I needed to make a good photo and the weather wasn't cooperating. I wrote about the blur hour in my blog. Check it out.
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