Runnerguy said:Love the combo takes some great pics.Wish I had more reach sometimes but it's a really versatile combo
Beautiful shot. Well done Runnerguy... and Welcome to CR
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Runnerguy said:Love the combo takes some great pics.Wish I had more reach sometimes but it's a really versatile combo
nineyards said:As an aside, I have a healthy respect for anyone who has mastered BIF with a 600mm focal length, be it with an extender or a bare lens, it was a dismal first attempt for me.
Keeping your quarry in the lens field of view requires a steadier hand and a sharper perspective than I ever would have anticipated. Going to take more than a bit of practice.
Runnerguy said:This shot taken with 300 ii +2xiii not cropped ,love how sharp compared to my 100-400 but did get some nice shot with that lens too
he did not take me serious and allowed me to get fairly close and when he decided to fly he went towards me angling away and gave me a great string of shotsAlanF said:Runnerguy said:This shot taken with 300 ii +2xiii not cropped ,love how sharp compared to my 100-400 but did get some nice shot with that lens too
Not cropped! How did you get so close?
mackguyver said:Here's a few more from this morning:
Runnerguy said:I use a dual camera strap to walk trails and dikes with my 300ii and extenders and handhold most bif pics so the lighter weight and size works perfect for what I do but would still like to get the 600 f4ii but that's got to wait for awhile for added reach.
Thanks and my PP tool of choice is DxO. I'm able to process about 90% of my work using it alone, but will use PhotoShop CC if I need to do additional work like compositing, portrait retouching, and such. With my wildlife and landscape photos, I don't do any cloning or retouching, so DxO does it all for me .candyman said:Very nice!
The 300 f/2.8 MKII + ext 2.x is producing very good quality.
What kind of post processing did you do?
So you only apply the lens profile module (300 + ext 2.x) in DxO for those photos? Nothing else?mackguyver said:Thanks and my PP tool of choice is DxO. I'm able to process about 90% of my work using it alone, but will use PhotoShop CC if I need to do additional work like compositing, portrait retouching, and such. With my wildlife and landscape photos, I don't do any cloning or retouching, so DxO does it all for me .candyman said:Very nice!
The 300 f/2.8 MKII + ext 2.x is producing very good quality.
What kind of post processing did you do?
candyman said:So you only apply the lens profile module (300 + ext 2.x) in DxO for those photos? Nothing else?
Same here, and there's no profile for the 300 f/2.8 IS II with or without extenders - hopefully someday, but the (auto-)corrections would be fairly minor - a bit of vignetting, a tiny bit of CA with the extenders. The automatic sharpening with the lens profiles in DxO is really nice, however, and that would save me a lot of time tweaking the unsharp mask settings.neuroanatomist said:candyman said:So you only apply the lens profile module (300 + ext 2.x) in DxO for those photos? Nothing else?
Personally, I often apply a variety of corrections in DxO – exposure, WB, vibrance, level and crop, etc. However, with the exception of dust removal all of DxO's tools are global. For local edits, I use CS6.
Thanks, Click. Ospreys were everywhere this morning - I bet I was at least 6 of them in the space of 20 minutes this morning. That's a uncropped photo as well, and it's very sharp - can't wait to print it.Click said:Really nice shots mackguyver, I especially like the Osprey. Well done.