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[ISv]

Here too - are you in BC?

I'm in HI! Nice photos BTW!

 

[Mikehit]

Every day I find my style leaning more and more toward high contrast black and white photography which is not always a logical choice when it comes to wildlife photography. Sometimes though it works quite well and i really like this image of a pair of Yellow tailed Black Cockatoos.

Cool shot - I like it when someone tries something different and it comes off.

 

[Bert63]

I'm in HI! Nice photos BTW!

Thanks! I asked because you said 'the Island' and we get thousands of Snow Geese through here every year as well.

There are probably 50,000 in this shot.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/YGwKL4CPUTjgS7wN9

 

[AaronT]

I never ignore sparrows. Here is one in honour of the Canadians, taken in Lunenberg, Nova Scotia, with a 7DII + 100-400mm II + 1,4xTC.

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I have a question for you Alan, and I apologize if you have been asked this before. In your humble opinion which is sharper, the 100-400L with 1.4TC on the 5DSR or the 100-400L on the 90D?

 

[AlanF]

I have a question for you Alan, and I apologize if you have been asked this before. In your humble opinion which is sharper, the 100-400L with 1.4TC on the 5DSR or the 100-400L on the 90D?

I can speak for the 100-400mm II. There's really not much between them, and it depends on the quality of the TC and how you process the RAW image (I don't use ooc jpegs). If you squeeze every drop of resolution using DxO PL and its lens sharpness tool, the 90D just wins. But, its files are grainy for heavy cropping and I don't like them. Noise Ninja sorts out the noise, but then the 5DSR has the edge. If you don't crop, you would be pushed to see the difference.

 

[Click]

Every day I find my style leaning more and more toward high contrast black and white photography which is not always a logical choice when it comes to wildlife photography. Sometimes though it works quite well and i really like this image of a pair of Yellow tailed Black Cockatoos.

Very nice shot. Well done, Aussie shooter.

 

[AlanF]

I can speak for the 100-400mm II. There's really not much between them, and it depends on the quality of the TC and how you process the RAW image (I don't use ooc jpegs). If you squeeze every drop of resolution using DxO PL and its lens sharpness tool, the 90D just wins. But, its files are grainy for heavy cropping and I don't like them. Noise Ninja sorts out the noise, but then the 5DSR has the edge. If you don't crop, you would be pushed to see the difference.

I have taken this quarantined afternoon a series of comparison images. At the pixel peeking level, the 5DSR has the edge in general, albeit slight for sharpness. I don't understand the odd comment in CR forums complaining about the 5DSR files. I find them very clean at iso 640, for example, where the 90D is beginning to show some noise.

 

[AlanF]

The Forsythia has come out at the bottom of the garden and has attracted some Longtailed Tits. They don't stay still or pose at all. Captured one yesterday at 30m which is tiny number of pixels, but I caught one this afternoon closer by.

 

[Click]

Cute little bird.

 

[Bert63]

The Forsythia has come out at the bottom of the garden and has attracted some Longtailed Tits. They don't stay still or pose at all. Captured one yesterday at 30m which is tiny number of pixels, but I caught one this afternoon closer by.

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He looks like caught a bad whiff of something.

 

[AlanF]

It looks like some of us will be grounded for many months. I have quite a stash of photos taken in the last 12 months waiting to be looked at. Most taken with the 5DSR or 5DIV + 100-400mm II to cheer me up. Let's start with 3 from Antisana in the Ecuadorian Andes (5DIV). Black Flower Piercer, Male Shining Sunbeam and Grass Wren. I managed to catch the iridescence on the Sunbeam.

 

[Click]

Very nice pictures, Alan. I especially like the 3rd one. Well done, Sir!

 

[Bert63]

So a couple of summers ago we were out camping. It was a rare dry stretch and the temperatures were higher than average. All the animals were looking for water. Where we were camped I'd put water on the leaves and the chickadees would come and sit under them and bathe.

We were walking down to the beach and a flash went over our head and then it landed on the water fountain. He sat there drinking and having a good time and we watched and grinned - we'd never seen anything like it.

7D2 / 100-400L II @ 263mm / F6.3 / 1/1000 / ISO 3200

 

[RGB49]

Some from recent outing. The owl a long way away

 

[Bert63]

Some from recent outing. The owl a long way awayView attachment 189297View attachment 189298View attachment 189299

Very nice. Love Barn Owls. Looks like those cattails make good nesting material.

 

[IslanderMV]

Spotted this single Snow Bunting near the local beach. There seemed to lots to eat so it tolerated few shots before keeping its distance.

 

[Jack Douglas]

I have taken this quarantined afternoon a series of comparison images. At the pixel peeking level, the 5DSR has the edge in general, albeit slight for sharpness. I don't understand the odd comment in CR forums complaining about the 5DSR files. I find them very clean at iso 640, for example, where the 90D is beginning to show some noise.

It scares me to hear comments about ISO 640 I can scarcely remember shooting down that low. More often than not I'm 1250 - 3200 but I guess I must factor in your downsizing.

Jack

 

[Click]

Bert63, RGB49 and IslanderMV,

Nice series, guys.

 

[JustUs7]

I dusted off our OLD Rebel XS with the 10.1 MP sensor and 7 focus points. Reason being the crop sensor and our 70-300 zoom. What is that? 480 equivalent?

Doesn’t talk to my phone. I’ll see what I can get and upload manually. I got a morning dove on our roof earlier today.

 

[Jack Douglas]

I'm now into 2014. These were previously neglected or poorly processed. There are so few birds here to choose from when the snow is on the ground.

Jack