Show your Bird Portraits

[Bert63]

Missed a few of the center frames - was zoomed too close and panicking because I was sure I was screwing the sequence up - I was completely unprepared (as usual) and got lucky (as usual). The climb and landing.

These are cropped and shrunk but they still look decent. One of my favorite sequences.

 

[Bert63]

 

[Bert63]

 

[Click]

Nice! I especially like the last picture.

 

[Bert63]

Nice! I especially like the last picture.

Thanks Click!

 

[Bert63]

Mugshots. He looks guilty.

 

[HenryL]

Today must be eagle day...I'm in! Put the R5 in crop mode, trying to see how well it stands in for my 7DII. Methinks the 7DII is hitting the auction block...or not. I'm feeling kinda sentimental about it. Hmmm...decisions, decisions.

 

[HenryL]

Some shore birds from today...



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[usern4cr]

I'm still waiting to get the RF 100-500mm f4.5-7.1 L IS so that I can take long telephoto high-magnification shots of flowers and birds on my R5, since the graph of its background blur size at 500mm is almost identical to that of my MFT Olympus 300mm f4 lens, while the Canon resolution and color depth should go far beyond what Olympus can do. But since I don't have it, and I can't get (yet) R5 raw files through my DXO post pipeline, I was hoping that you wouldn't mind if I ran a few photos I just took with my Olympus 300mm lens since that raw file goes through my DXO. Here are some crops at 1:1 with it:

 

[Click]

Nice shots, usern4cr. I especially like the 2nd one.

 

[Click]

Very nice series, HenryL.

 

[dpc]

Juvenile house sparrows ready to leave the nest

 

[Click]

So cute. Nicely done, dpc.

 

[AlanF]

A Dunnock or Hedgesparrow today.

 

[Click]

Very nice shots, I especially like the second one.

 

[Bert63]

Today must be eagle day...I'm in! Put the R5 in crop mode, trying to see how well it stands in for my 7DII. Methinks the 7DII is hitting the auction block...or not. I'm feeling kinda sentimental about it. Hmmm...decisions, decisions.

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Funny - in the car right now I have my EOS-R, the 5D4, and the.........7D2. I've been 'nostalgia' shooting it for two days now and I'll never get rid of it.

Which lens did you use to get these? They're very good! Up here every day is eagle day. The only question is whether or not you can get to them..

 

[Bert63]

I'm still waiting to get the RF 100-500mm f4.5-7.1 L IS so that I can take long telephoto high-magnification shots of flowers and birds on my R5, since the graph of its background blur size at 500mm is almost identical to that of my MFT Olympus 300mm f4 lens, while the Canon resolution and color depth should go far beyond what Olympus can do. But since I don't have it, and I can't get (yet) R5 raw files through my DXO post pipeline, I was hoping that you wouldn't mind if I ran a few photos I just took with my Olympus 300mm lens since that raw file goes through my DXO. Here are some crops at 1:1 with it:View attachment 192385View attachment 192386View attachment 192387

These are great - so super sharp - and it's good to see another DxO user. I love it. That plus Nik and a little Topaz Studio from time to time and I'm good to go..

 

[Bert63]

A Dunnock or Hedgesparrow today.

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These are beautiful Alan - which set up did you use to get these?

 

[usern4cr]

These are great - so super sharp - and it's good to see another DxO user. I love it. That plus Nik and a little Topaz Studio from time to time and I'm good to go..

Thanks, Bert.

I've been really happy with DXO PhotoLab as it gives some very easy to learn & simple ways to make some very big improvements to your images - especially if your images have more grain in them (like from a MFT sensor - ahem, cough, cough!) it can make it smooth as butter, and the sharpening tools and color/brightness corrections it allows with a few easy sliders lets "amateurs" like me get some surprising results (like those hummingbirds). It can't do a lot of really fancy stuff that you can with Lightroom & Photoshop, but I use AffinityPhoto for a few of those things (but I'm new to it and not an expert at all). I use PTGui to stitch panoramas, and have a self-customized tripod setup with dual Nodal Ninja ball-stop rotaters for fast & precise multi-row panorama alignment if you're into gigapixel landscape panos, etc. Now I got lucky enough to get the R5 at launch but that scuttled my ability to use its raw files in the programs I rely on - DOH!

For all of the people that do use Lightroom and Photoshop, you can all enjoy the fact that they already got R5 raw file input working (I heard), and you can all say to me in unison, "You get what you pay for!". I'm so jealous!

 

[Bert63]

Thanks, Bert.

I've been really happy with DXO PhotoLab as it gives some very easy to learn & simple ways to make some very big improvements to your images - especially if your images have more grain in them (like from a MFT sensor - ahem, cough, cough!) it can make it smooth as butter, and the sharpening tools and color/brightness corrections it allows with a few easy sliders lets "amateurs" like me get some surprising results (like those hummingbirds). It can't do a lot of really fancy stuff that you can with Lightroom & Photoshop, but I use AffinityPhoto for a few of those things (but I'm new to it and not an expert at all). I use PTGui to stitch panoramas, and have a self-customized tripod setup with dual Nodal Ninja ball-stop rotaters for fast & precise multi-row panorama alignment if you're into gigapixel landscape panos, etc. Now I got lucky enough to get the R5 at launch but that scuttled my ability to use its raw files in the programs I rely on - DOH!

For all of the people that do use Lightroom and Photoshop, you can all enjoy the fact that they already got R5 raw file input working (I heard), and you can all say to me in unison, "You get what you pay for!". I'm so jealous!

DxO won't be far behind.