Digital Age Field Guide Production
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A talk on using digital tools and online information sources to research and produce a classic field guide on southeastern and Gulf Coast marine wildlife.
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Digital Age Field Guide Production
- 41. Lenses: Canon 18-55mm EF-S Canon 28-135mm EF IS Canon 70-300mm F5.6 IS Tamron SP 90mm AF Macro
Notas do Editor
- Student of Noble’s at Southern BS & MS in Biology Story about getting out of a term paper by doing bird illustrations
- Worked on Falkner Island project in 1970s & 1980s
- Particular love for seabirds and the coastal environment
- Original idea for seabirds and whales gradually expanded
- WYSIWYG throughout the development process Complete set of production tools on my desktop
- Used to work in watercolors Photoshop techniques are remarkably similar
- Computer illustration takes about 1/3 or less than conventional illustration
- The computer isn’t an “art robot” The speed comes from “undo” and being able to work without worry of messing up a piece
- Layering Endless perfect copies
- Just as much fun to illustrate on the computer as in older techniques
- Composites with photos Trees are from the Bahia Honda parking lot The water in the lower right is from Bluff Point The beauty of digital imaging is flexibility
- Research
- Common moorhen
- Delray - Boynton Beach, just south of West Palm Beach Wakodahatchee example
- Green Cay Park
- Incredibly rich information for site research Roads, local photos, directions, places to eat
- Connections to Google Earth
- I already “knew” the place long before I actually arrived Know the roads, park layouts, best times of year, places to see, habitats, likely birds
- Hooking the environment to the Web Quick response coding (or something like it) built into cell phones Web GPS Google Earth and other geographic tools “ Knowledge in the world” in real time
- Common moorhen
- Great Blue Heron Great Egret
- Common Moorhen
- Common Moorhen
- White Ibis
- Glossy Ibis
- SHIFT TO THE KEYS ENVIRONMENTS
- Lewis and Costello
- Lake Mattamuskeet Just inland from Pamlico Sound
- Roanoke Sound Sound Bottlenose Dolphin Dolphin watches from around the Whalebone Junction area.
- Cattle Egrets near Lake Mattamuskeet