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[Click]

Most of our Yellow Crowned Night Heron population is about to head further south but some are still lurking around for the Fall crabs. These were taken about 30 minutes apart, one just before sunset and the other after most of the sky color had left.

Just after landing and doing a strut back to the water.

R5 600 II w/1.4x 1/1000 : f/7.1 : ISO 1000

Waiting for a crab to make its last move with the last color from the Belt of Venus in the water.

R5 600 II 1/20 : f/6.3 : ISO 1000

Beautiful pictures. Nicely done, ERHP.

 

[dpc]

Red-winged blackbird

 

[Click]

Nice shot, dpc.

 

[josephandrews222]

Male Downy Woodpecker (manual focus):



...would an R5 eye focus work as intended in this sort of shooting situation?

(Missed a bunch of shots with manual focus )

 

[usern4cr]

Male Downy Woodpecker (manual focus):

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...would an R5 eye focus work as intended in this sort of shooting situation?

(Missed a bunch of shots with manual focus )

Yes, The R5 takes superb images with animal eye AF for this sort of picture. I use it pretty much 100% of the time for things like this. I also use 2 AF buttons (one for eye AF, one for one-spot AF) so that I can get eye AF when possible and use spot AF when it's harder to get the eye AF to lock on. I also suggest you consider taking the same image with varying apertures, so that you can pick the one later in post that has the best balance of sharp subject DOF and biggest OOF background blur.

 

[Click]

Nice series, josephandres222.

 

[OskarB]

Back in 2017 I visited Tanzania and took also some photos of birds.
I'm not sure if I can ID the birds correctly, if at all. And the qualty is not as excellent as usually seen on this forum.
If it is nonetheless welcome, I will post some more.
I'll start with a Black-headed Heron (Ardea melanocephala).
7DM2, Tamron 70-300 F/4-5.6

 

[Click]

Nice shots. I especially like the second one.

 

[OskarB]

Nice shots. I especially like the second one.

Thanks, Click!

 

[JPAZ]

Was trying to get some compelling images from my 5 yr old Grandson's soccer game (that's football for some of you ) which was, shall we say, more difficult than capturing a hummingbird feeding. But, I turned to my left and saw this couple...........could not help myself.

 

[OskarB]

A egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus Linnaeus) with its chicks.
I have learned that this is a very aggressive bird towards other animals in its territory.

 

[Maximilian]

Sitting ducks 1:

 

[Maximilian]

Sitting ducks 2:

 

[Click]

Was trying to get some compelling images from my 5 yr old Grandson's soccer game (that's football for some of you ) which was, shall we say, more difficult than capturing a hummingbird feeding. But, I turned to my left and saw this couple...........could not help myself.

Beautiful colours.

 

[Click]

A egyptian goose (Alopochen aegyptiacus Linnaeus) with its chicks.
I have learned that this is a very aggressive bird towards other animals in its territory.

Very nice shot, Oskar.

 

[Click]

Nice pictures, Maximilian. I especially like the second one.

 

[OskarB]

Very nice shot, Oskar.

Thanks, Click!

 

[jprusa]

Sitting ducks 1:

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Nice ! you have your ducks in a row on this one

 

[AlanF]

Mallard in eclipse taking off. (R5/500mm)

 

[HenryL]

Things on this side of the pond were ducky today, too... (R5 + 100-500 + 1.4x TC SOOC, just cropped & resized).

Ruddy ducks





Mallard drake


Boat-Tailed Grackle