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[Click]

Great shot, Eric

 

[rpt]

Mykel, fantastic shots!

 

[rpt]

Great shot, Eric

+1

Fantastic shot.

 

[Mykel]

Beautiful work Eric

 

[serendipidy]

Thank you Click, rpt and Mykel for your kind words

 

[Jack Douglas]

Thank-you Click for you kind words

Fabulous captures of the Rainbow Bee-eater!
If you don't mind me asking, what were your camera/lens and settings? I'm trying to learn to get better BIF photos.

You want better than the shots you're getting? Makes me feel rather hopeless!

Great Rainbow Bee-eater!

Jack

 

[Mykel]

Thank you very much Jack.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Mykel.
Very nice series, I think this (first) one is great.

Cheers, Graham.

Rainbow Bee-eater

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Serendipidy.
You want better than this? I would think so, this is such a terrible shot you should be ashamed to post it! : ;D ;D ;D (sarcasm off)
I'm guessing this is one 'keeper' of a set of not so good 'deleters' that you got, that seems to be a 'feature' of this body from what I have read and personal experience.
Very nice shots, perhaps you could share AF settings and help all of us struggling to get half this good! Are you using a support, tripod or monopod?

Cheers, Graham.

Juvenile BCN Heron...7D II and 100-400L II

 

[hbr]

Juvenile BCN Heron...7D II and 100-400L II
Juvenile BCN Heron BIF by Eric Johnson, on Flickr

Eric, I believe you are getting the hang of the 7D II focus system.

Lovely shot!

 

[DominoDude]

Juvenile BCN Heron...7D II and 100-400L II
Juvenile BCN Heron BIF by Eric Johnson, on Flickr

Bloody hell!
I envy both the amount of Black-crowned night herons you have near you, and what you are able to do with them. This particular shot is all kinds of awesome.

 

[sedwards]

Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Orlando Wetlands Park
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck by Stuart Edwards, on Flickr

 

[Click]

Nicely done, Stuart.

 

[serendipidy]

Hi Serendipidy.
You want better than this? I would think so, this is such a terrible shot you should be ashamed to post it! : ;D ;D ;D (sarcasm off)
I'm guessing this is one 'keeper' of a set of not so good 'deleters' that you got, that seems to be a 'feature' of this body from what I have read and personal experience.
Very nice shots, perhaps you could share AF settings and help all of us struggling to get half this good! Are you using a support, tripod or monopod?

Cheers, Graham.

Juvenile BCN Heron...7D II and 100-400L II

Hi Graham,
Yes, you are correct. This is perhaps my best keeper of hundreds of deleted shots. I wish to improve my skills so that I can get more keepers like this more consistently.
If you click on the image, it takes you to the photo on Flickr where all the EXIF data can be viewed. This was done with my new 7D2 (which does seems to give me many less keepers than my old 7D) and new 100-400L II. The Exif data shows manual mode (I programmed the C3 mode dial for these settings) with f/6.3, 1/1250 shutter, Auto ISO (was 200 for this shot), EC +1/3, 9 point expansion focus at 248mm, AI Servo, evaluative metering and auto white balance and high speed continuos motor drive. Processed in DPP. All my bird shots are handheld and I try to remember to put the lens in IS mode 2 (for panning) but I often forget.

Cheers and Happy New Year,
Eric

 

[serendipidy]

Juvenile BCN Heron...7D II and 100-400L II
Juvenile BCN Heron BIF by Eric Johnson, on Flickr

Eric, I believe you are getting the hang of the 7D II focus system.

Lovely shot!

Thanks hbr. I am getting more used to it as I experiment and practice, but this shot had a lot of luck too. ;D

 

[serendipidy]

Nicely done, Stuart.

+1!

 

[serendipidy]

Juvenile BCN Heron...7D II and 100-400L II
Juvenile BCN Heron BIF by Eric Johnson, on Flickr

Bloody hell!
I envy both the amount of Black-crowned night herons you have near you, and what you are able to do with them. This particular shot is all kinds of awesome.

Thank you DominoDude
There are 2 adults and one juvenile that regularly hang out around here. I trade them fish for their modeling fee ;D
It's frequently very overcast here and then the ISO is way too high for a decent photo, so I have to wait for a sunny period to shoot. The problem is to get them to fly so I often have to run back and forth along the canal to entice them to change fishing spots.
But the biggest problem now is a marauding thieving criminal gang of fearless and lightening fast mallard ducks (usually 10-20 in number) that steal all the bread bait I cast in front of the heron and therefore the herons don't catch many fish when the ducks are around.
Sometimes, it feels like a chore to go out and try to get them some fish and so, somedays, they wait for me for hours and I just ignore them and then I feel a little guilty.

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Eric.
Thanks, and happy new year to you too.
I did look at it on Flickr, but didn't find the AF settings, (probably lost in the deluge of info that they do give!) I did see that you use DPP, I found it less than intuitive but might have to give it another try based on the results I see from you guys that use it!

Cheers, Graham.

Hi Serendipidy.
You want better than this? I would think so, this is such a terrible shot you should be ashamed to post it! : ;D ;D ;D (sarcasm off)
I'm guessing this is one 'keeper' of a set of not so good 'deleters' that you got, that seems to be a 'feature' of this body from what I have read and personal experience.
Very nice shots, perhaps you could share AF settings and help all of us struggling to get half this good! Are you using a support, tripod or monopod?

Cheers, Graham.

Juvenile BCN Heron...7D II and 100-400L II

Hi Graham,
Yes, you are correct. This is perhaps my best keeper of hundreds of deleted shots. I wish to improve my skills so that I can get more keepers like this more consistently.
If you click on the image, it takes you to the photo on Flickr where all the EXIF data can be viewed. This was done with my new 7D2 (which does seems to give me many less keepers than my old 7D) and new 100-400L II. The Exif data shows manual mode (I programmed the C3 mode dial for these settings) with f/6.3, 1/1250 shutter, Auto ISO (was 200 for this shot), EC +1/3, 9 point expansion focus at 248mm, AI Servo, evaluative metering and auto white balance and high speed continuos motor drive. Processed in DPP. All my bird shots are handheld and I try to remember to put the lens in IS mode 2 (for panning) but I often forget.

Cheers and Happy New Year,
Eric

 

[SevenDUser]

Anyone out there can ID this? My guess is northern harrier. Buddy thinks it's a sharp shinned hawk.

 

[serendipidy]

Hi Eric.
Thanks, and happy new year to you too.
I did look at it on Flickr, but didn't find the AF settings, (probably lost in the deluge of info that they do give!) I did see that you use DPP, I found it less than intuitive but might have to give it another try based on the results I see from you guys that use it!

Cheers, Graham.

Hi Serendipidy.
You want better than this? I would think so, this is such a terrible shot you should be ashamed to post it! : ;D ;D ;D (sarcasm off)
I'm guessing this is one 'keeper' of a set of not so good 'deleters' that you got, that seems to be a 'feature' of this body from what I have read and personal experience.
Very nice shots, perhaps you could share AF settings and help all of us struggling to get half this good! Are you using a support, tripod or monopod?

Cheers, Graham.

Juvenile BCN Heron...7D II and 100-400L II

Hi Graham,
Yes, you are correct. This is perhaps my best keeper of hundreds of deleted shots. I wish to improve my skills so that I can get more keepers like this more consistently.
If you click on the image, it takes you to the photo on Flickr where all the EXIF data can be viewed. This was done with my new 7D2 (which does seems to give me many less keepers than my old 7D) and new 100-400L II. The Exif data shows manual mode (I programmed the C3 mode dial for these settings) with f/6.3, 1/1250 shutter, Auto ISO (was 200 for this shot), EC +1/3, 9 point expansion focus at 248mm, AI Servo, evaluative metering and auto white balance and high speed continuos motor drive. Processed in DPP. All my bird shots are handheld and I try to remember to put the lens in IS mode 2 (for panning) but I often forget.

Cheers and Happy New Year,
Eric

Yes, I think you're right about the Exif not showing all the settings such as AF settings, etc. I started using DPP with my first Canon digital camera since it was free. I have never used anything else, but signed up for the Adobe CC Photography plan 11 months ago. I don't really know how to use it yet and have only tried it once to process maybe 20 photos. I think that is what most photogs use with great results so I need to start using it.
Eric