Show your Bird Portraits

[Jack Douglas]

Hi Jack.
I think that was definitely a worthy shot, I love it, not an angle you get to see too often.
At least you have the best tool for f8, all the AF points plus it looks to me like it handles high ISO really nicely.

Cheers, Graham.

Today's attempt with nothing much that flies to shoot. 800mm F9 1/1000 too slow ISO 800

Jack

Jack
This looks like a "Bird in Flight"! Congratulations.

No it's a bird in fright worried that he was supposed to appear in another thread but I told him to just relax.

I hope to have more, I'll keep trying, and maybe one day I'll have something worthy of the other thread. I'm loving 800, just wish it wasn't F8 relative to ISOs

Jack

Jack
Did he take off as you were taking him on the post behind? Those guys don't give you much chance if they are in mid flight.

Alan, you are right. Pure luck with the assistance of technology! No, I'm not that good! Just joking. I'm now really good. 8)

Jack

 

[AlanF]

Jack
I have been trying BIF with the 400 DO II + 2xTC +5DIV. There are not many opportunities at present but 3 days ago when standing on a bridge a gull flew straight at me fairly fast and I got a series of shots in good focus. The 800 has such a narrow angle of view and the bird moves across it so rapidly that I have had to give up centre focus plus 4 surrounding squares and use the full screen. Fortunately, the 5DIV like the 1DX2 can do this at f/8. You can see I had go him by the face and front wing. I suppose it is a portrait!

 

[Mikehit]

I have got the 1Dx2 (on hire) and tried it with the 100-400 +1.4 MkII Canon tc which gives an f8 lens, but I am restricted to centre point +4 points or to a multi-point focus area that is a narrow strip across the middle of the viewfinder.
Is there something I should do to get all-point AF or is that limited to an f4 lens with 2xtc?

 

[Northbird]

Dark-eyed Junco. 7D MK II, 600II.

Beautiful. Great shot.

Thanks Click and Valve, it was fun watching this Junco feed around this tree.

 

[Jack Douglas]

I have got the 1Dx2 (on hire) and tried it with the 100-400 +1.4 MkII Canon tc which gives an f8 lens, but I am restricted to centre point +4 points or to a multi-point focus area that is a narrow strip across the middle of the viewfinder.
Is there something I should do to get all-point AF or is that limited to an f4 lens with 2xtc?

That lens combo puts you in "category F" with the grouping outside the center rectangle being single line type so if you've chosen an option to use only cross type then those groupings on either side of the center won't be accessible. See P 104 of manual.

Jack

 

[Mikehit]

Cheers Jack.

 

[nats1mom]

Canon Mark III, EF100-400mm F/4.5-56L IS II USM

 

[Jack Douglas]

nats1mom, I like this one a lot.

Jack

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi nats1mom.
Lovely shot, nicely done.

Cheers, Graham.

Canon Mark III, EF100-400mm F/4.5-56L IS II USM

 

[Click]

Canon Mark III, EF100-400mm F/4.5-56L IS II USM

Very nice picture, nats1mom.

 

[AlanF]

Goldfinch 5DIV + 400 DO II + 2x TC, f/8 1/4000, 1/3200, iso 16000, a little earlier today.

 

[AlanF]

Then, you get a great shot of a Great Tit, look at it see a ring on its right ankle. What do you do. Get a divorce lawyer.

 

[rpt]

Lovely shots AlanF!

 

[TheJock]

I found an Osprey sitting in a telecoms tower at the beach in Fujairah on Thursday, it was sitting high up preening and digesting it's breakfast. I lay (very uncomfortably) on the rocky beach and watched it for an hour and a half, waiting on the take off. A speedboat hauling a banana boat entered the bay and I looked at it for 3 seconds, when I looked back the bird was already in the air. 300klm's (almost) down the drain!!!!!
I hate speedboats!

70D, 100-400L, ISO 500, 1/2000, f7.1

 

[alben]

Goldfinch and Bluetit

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Alan.
Nice shots, not a bad divorce lawyer either! ;D

Hi Stewart.
Just proves he wanted to leave an hour earlier but was waiting for you to look away! : ;D

Hi Alben.
Very nice shots.

Cheers, Graham.

 

[nats1mom]

Canon Mark III, EF100-400mm F/4.5-56L IS II USM

Very nice picture, nats1mom.

Thank you Click!

 

[nats1mom]

Hi nats1mom.
Lovely shot, nicely done.

Cheers, Graham.

Canon Mark III, EF100-400mm F/4.5-56L IS II USM

Thank you Graham!

 

[nats1mom]

nats1mom, I like this one a lot.

Jack

Thank you Jack!!

 

[David Perrin]

A few photo's taken with my new Canon 5D MkIV and 100-400 Mk2