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Alan, honestly I'm not that big fan of your GIFs but this one is very reasonable: Is it really smashing the fish on the branch?! And I was thinking that that Night Heron with a fish that I posted ~month ago is to much "big mouth"
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I like the second one better! Sounds promising to me since right now I'm waiting for my TC-14E III to be delivered. I will post photos ASAP (well, first I have to get these photos
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They don't need to "tenderize" the fish since they just swallow it
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Today I was out in hunt for +/- breeding plumage Wandering Tattler (I still have to get a photo of one!). The only one that I found had some black feathers on the belly but far from breeding plumage...
On other hand I noticed it's hunting for something. Up to now I have seen it hunting shrimp in such a water or probing the mud on mud flats.
Here it was fishing! And off course - Pacific Golden Plower, female I believe, in nearly full breeding plumage.
On other hand I noticed it's hunting for something. Up to now I have seen it hunting shrimp in such a water or probing the mud on mud flats.
Here it was fishing! And off course - Pacific Golden Plower, female I believe, in nearly full breeding plumage.
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Yes, it really is whacking the fish against the branch. They do this to remove fins and other projections that can stick in their throats rather than to kill the fish as they will swallow smaller ones without this fuss.Alan, honestly I'm not that big fan of your GIFs but this one is very reasonable: Is it really smashing the fish on the branch?! And I was thinking that that Night Heron with a fish that I posted ~month ago is to much "big mouth"
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Hi Alan!
Congrats to this great catch
"Not the best" is once again a little bit understatement. But I can imagine what you're thinking of and I suppose my question is pointing that way as I am interested in the R5 IQ and I am looking at the a little bit nervous BG of the first two pics:
Can you please tell me the exposure data, esp. the ISO value and how much sharpening you did in post?
Thanks in advance.
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The camera was badly set up for those shots as I was too excited to optimise and I could see through the evf I could handle the conditions. f/7.1, iso3200 and 1/2500s, and pushed through 1.5ev in post so the effective iso was 10,000. They were all shot in RAW and processed in DxO PL4. The two shots of the male had bog standard DxO DEEPPrime noise reduction and lens sharpening set to normal. They are crops that were 2800 and 3200 wide, reduced by the site. The female shots are 100% crops that you are seeing at 1px = 1px of original, and have the EXIF data attached as the site did not reduce their size and strip out the data. I selectively sharpened the bird by having no sharpening from DxO and then processing in Topaz AI. That image of the female face-on has a diameter of only 500px. The second one is of similar size so background artefacts are all magnified in these crops - I think it amazing that one can get such detail from a crop of that tiny size at an iso of 10k! Canon wasn't lying when Rudy said the 45Mpx sensor of the R5 with an AA-filter outresolves the 50 Mpx 5DSR: here are measurements of sensor resolution from Optyczne (note the older Z7/D850 45 Mpx sensors are as good as the R5).Hi Alan!
Congrats to this great catch
"Not the best" is once again a little bit understatement. But I can imagine what you're thinking of and I suppose my question is pointing that way as I am interested in the R5 IQ and I am looking at the a little bit nervous BG of the first two pics:
Can you please tell me the exposure data, esp. the ISO value and how much sharpening you did in post?
Thanks in advance.
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More re-discovered Winter backyard photos.
(R5 & RF 100-500)
House finch:
Tufted titmouse:
House finch:
Northern cardinal:
(R5 & RF 100-500)
House finch:
Tufted titmouse:
House finch:
Northern cardinal:
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And from today: the primary goal was to get a photos of the Japanese Bush Warbler. Very hard to spot but you have a chance in this season (breeding). Today I was very lucky! And some photos of the Red-billed Leiothrix...
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More Winter backyard photos:
(R5 & RF 100-500)
White throated sparrow:
2 House finches:
2 Northern cardinals:
(R5 & RF 100-500)
White throated sparrow:
2 House finches:
2 Northern cardinals:
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