Show your Bird Portraits
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Wonderful!
Great joke!
First I thought...
Oh,oh... Mr and Mrs Kingfisher have a disagreement
Thank you Maximilian.
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Now it's spring!
Wonderful in the sun
Unfortunately down here in the Antipodes we have drifted into autumn. However, we are still getting nice warm days and sunny spells - probably more enjoyable than the height of summer.
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And another one! That one seems to have some tick at the beak, or whatever that black bulge there is.
5D4, 100-400L II + TC, @560mm, f/8, 1/800, ISO250
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Have you used a lot of USM? it's quite different from your usual images and has white halos.
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USM?
Sorry, don‘t know what you mean.
USM to means Ultra Sonic Motor to me.
I did my usual PP with DPP.
I needed heavy cropping 1:1.
That white halo also appears in the unprocessed RAW, too.
Too much contrast for the sensor?
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USM = UnSharp Mask, the process used by DPP, PS etc for sharpening. When it's too heavy, it puts halos around the subjects. If there are halos in RAW, then it is due to another reason that I don't know about.
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Evident halos around the high-contrast areas (dark feathers and branches against blue sky). If not due to excessive sharpening, could be due correction of chromatic aberration (the aberrant color fringes are desaturated, leading to the white halo). Still shouldn't show up in the RAW file (you'd see the colored fringe there).
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Spent the last week in Israel, based in Eilat, to watch the bird migration, mainly high flying raptors. It was great birdwatching for the experts, and there really knowledgeable ones in the group as well as the superb guides. But, it was difficult for photography as we rarely got close and we were in the desert for much of the time. My wife used the R7 + RF 100-400mm and I the R5 + RF 100-500mm. Both sets of gear behaved superbly, and in the good light the R7 was hardly inferior. We took thousands of images and I'll post a few here. Then first bird we saw was at a car park, a Tristram's Starling, and a bit later a pair of White-spectacled Bulbuls, and I'll do one from each camera.
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Really wonderful first series.
Can't wait for more...
I hope you and your wife enjoyed the trip and all the experiences.
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Exhausted - it was a birding boot camp. I had been in training for a month with new hiking boots.
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