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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: Today at 04:39:11 AM »

Trying to learn the skill of BIF photography on my 7D and 100-400L or 70-200LII/2.8. Have been practicing on several herons that frequent here. It's a lot harder than I expected. Most of the shots (>90%) are totally worthless OOF blurs Starting to get a few almost acceptable shots which I will post for C&C. For those that are proficient, what settings do you use? Things like (on a 7D) AV or TV mode, what autofocus settings (zone, AF point expansion, etc), metering setting, etc? I try to limit ISO to 400 but that means wide aperture (shallow DOF-blurry) and/or slow shutter speed (again, blurry shots). Maybe I need a 5D3 or 1DX Thanks for any suggestions. Here are some of my better ones from past 2 days.

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Landscape / Re: Post Your Best Landscapes

« on: Today at 03:17:12 AM »

Montserrat, España by NoahWmR12, on Flickr


Dispersion of the fog (48/52) by NoahWmR12, on Flickr


Transfixed (42/52) by NoahWmR12, on Flickr

Nothing less than stunning. Great work. Please post more

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Landscape / Re: Post Your Best Landscapes

« on: May 24, 2013, 11:42:59 PM »

Toketee Falls in Southern Oregon, taken a couple weekends ago.

Very beautiful! Have you thought of maybe cropping it to a panorama size to remove some of the foreground and make the falls more prominent? I just tried it and I think it makes your great photo even more spectacular (imho)? I hope I didn't overstep decorum. Again, great photo.

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HDR - High Dynamic Range / Re: Post your HDR images:

« on: May 24, 2013, 11:13:57 PM »

Welcome to CR Spiffyinferno. I like your fire.

+1...very nice fire photo

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1D X Sample Images / Re: Any Thing shot with a 1Dx

« on: May 24, 2013, 03:12:18 AM »

1Dx
85L 1.2 II  1/200 ISO 50 Case1
papa girl

That little girl is always smiling in your photos :-) such a cute girl another cracker

Lovely pictures as usual! Lovely smile!

Gary, I am missing your bird and animal pictures

+1...and don't forget his recent landscapes too

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1D X Sample Images / Re: Any Thing shot with a 1Dx

« on: May 21, 2013, 05:53:08 AM »

Some of mine.  Went to the local zoo.  Just testing my recently acquired Canon 2x teleconverter III with my EF 70-200 f/2.8L II.  Gotta give you all a heads up that my shots do not come anywhere close to Gary Samples' and eml58's shots...composition and capture...theirs are just brilliant, jaw-dropping, and most importantly to me, inspiring.  Thank you both for sharing your images with everyone here.

Not taking away from everyone else's images...just that these two gents' images are what keeps me coming back to this thread.

Dwight...very nicely done. Makes me want to go to a zoo soon.

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1D X Sample Images / Re: Any Thing shot with a 1Dx

« on: May 21, 2013, 05:50:09 AM »

1Dx 300f/2.8, Shot @ f/6.3 1/320th ISO1600

The choice on the day was Leopards, or, A pack of Wild Dog had come into the area, no choice, these Animals are not only Beautiful but severely endangered, so we looked for these Guys all day, finally found them hunting just on Sunset. The tall Grass made them, for me, exceptionally hard to shoot in the fading light, so every shot I tried with the Pack Running I blew, but everything stands still sometime.

Eml...I envy you...you cover such an incredible range of photography....and you do it very, very well...again, nice shot!

+1

So many great photographers and mentors on this site. I used to visit other websites...now, pretty much only this one.

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 21, 2013, 05:39:06 AM »

From today: Brazilian Cardinal and Red Northern Cardinal on a chain link fence

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 21, 2013, 05:37:20 AM »

#1 Heron Bad Hair Day
#2 Heron trying to hide in an Octopus tree

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Street & City / Re: Superstrikes South Africa

« on: May 20, 2013, 02:38:58 AM »

OMG! I got a shock just looking at your photo. Superb shot. Congratulations

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Birds with attitude

« on: May 19, 2013, 10:39:42 PM »

I am not sure if this is the type of attitude that you are after, but this Sulphur Crested Cockatoo was certainly giving passers by a lot of attitude by swearing at them.
I am not a fan of birds in small cages, and this guy would normally have a much larger aviary to fly around in but he was being quarantined in a small cage after getting a treatment from the vet, and he was not happy about it.


Sulfur Crested Cockatoo behind bars by Idiot4Hire, on Flickr

Shot with an 1100D with an ef-s 55-250mm lens.

Under those circumstances, I don't blame him

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Lens Gallery / Re: Canon EF 500mm f/4L IS USM

« on: May 19, 2013, 08:28:55 PM »

Nice photos, mate Welcome to CR

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 19, 2013, 06:22:10 PM »

Wilson's Phalaropes, females in this case (which tend to be flashier than the males), out at Cherry Creek State Park in Colorado:

Awesome! Great shots Sir.

Concur! Very nice. 

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Animal Kingdom / Re: Show your Bird Portraits

« on: May 19, 2013, 06:19:11 PM »

Black-bellied Plover - Martha's Vineyard
60d + 100-400 mm

Nice shot! Like the lower angle perspective.

+1

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Landscape / Re: Post Your Best Landscapes

« on: May 19, 2013, 06:13:40 PM »

I have posted the Haystacks picture in the lens gallery, but thought I'd pop it into the Landscape gallery along with another picture. They are both taken in the English Lakes District National Park, the first from a small mountain known as 'Haystacks", looking towards Crummock Water and Ennerdale Water, with High Stile in the middle, at 2,643 feet. I know many around the world will laugh at that height being a mountain ( not those in the Netherlands     ) but to us Brits it's a mountain.

Second picture is taken in Borrowdale by the River Derwent, looking towards Maiden Moor, a paltry 1,887 feet.

All on the 24-105 at f11, at which aperture this lens is as good as anything else really, especially after pp.

Gorgeous shots and scenery! One day, I would love to visit the Lakes district.