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[lion rock]

Jack,
Have only heard one recently across the ravine near my home. Never saw its red head. Just not lucky enough.
-r

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Its quite cold here, and not too many birds (except crows) around.
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[Jack Douglas]

Mike you're just buttering me up! For ISO 5000, I am content.

Jack

Just it's excellent both picture of the bird and IQ of the shot. I must know is this a whole frame scaled down to the specific size or it it a 100% crop or something in between? Noise reduction? I know too many questions but it is so good...

Tron, at that ISO I can't do too much cropping - this is maybe 2/3 frame posted as 1600 X whatever. I've been using NIK colors based noise reduction (DPP NR is zeroed) and scaling it back as much as possible by eye. DPP sharpening strength at 3, threshold at 2, I believe, fineness at 10. Always the key is to not crop too much unlike the 5D4. ISO 8000 can be passible too but by 12800 the noise is getting comparable to the fine feather features and it's not sharp. For pixel peepers, it's not very good.

400 X2 has made a big difference for me.

Jack

 

[tron]

Mike you're just buttering me up! For ISO 5000, I am content.

Jack

Just it's excellent both picture of the bird and IQ of the shot. I must know is this a whole frame scaled down to the specific size or it it a 100% crop or something in between? Noise reduction? I know too many questions but it is so good...

Tron, at that ISO I can't do too much cropping - this is maybe 2/3 frame posted as 1600 X whatever. I've been using NIK colors based noise reduction (DPP NR is zeroed) and scaling it back as much as possible by eye. DPP sharpening strength at 3, threshold at 2, I believe, fineness at 10. Always the key is to not crop too much unlike the 5D4. ISO 8000 can be passible too but by 12800 the noise is getting comparable to the fine feather features and it's not sharp. For pixel peepers, it's not very good.

400 X2 has made a big difference for me.

Jack

Thanks for the info Jack. In cases of heavy cropping I have found out that DxO prime 2016 helps a lot (with sharpening set to on at it's default settings)

 

[Valvebounce]

Hi Jack.
That is gorgeous. Were you using your flash setup for this one, if so you have a nice balance with the ambient (or lots of spare light for the snow in the background).

Cheers, Graham.

You are right in that we should see them but having lived on an acreage east of Edmonton, Alberta for roughly 40 years, I've never seen an owl at my place, period.

But here is something I see on occasion, like an hour ago, a Northern Red-shafted flicker. We also see the Yellow-shafted about equally. 1DX2 400DO II X2 III 1/1250 F9 ISO 5000

Jack

 

[Jack Douglas]

Hi Jack.
That is gorgeous. Were you using your flash setup for this one, if so you have a nice balance with the ambient (or lots of spare light for the snow in the background).

Cheers, Graham.

You are right in that we should see them but having lived on an acreage east of Edmonton, Alberta for roughly 40 years, I've never seen an owl at my place, period.

But here is something I see on occasion, like an hour ago, a Northern Red-shafted flicker. We also see the Yellow-shafted about equally. 1DX2 400DO II X2 III 1/1250 F9 ISO 5000

Jack

Thanks Graham, No, embarrassing as it may sound, I have been completely overwhelmed by learning the AF system and optional settings of the 1DX2 that I've just avoided the flash. It really is needed since in cases like this one I have back lighting to a high degree.

Jack

 

[tc202]

Willet- 1DX II

 

[Jack Douglas]

tc202, nice shot with pleasing background.

Jack

 

[Click]

Willet- 1DX II

Very nice picture. Well done, tc202.

 

[LSeries]

A Common Tern with Canon 70D + Sigma 150-600 S

Common Tern Posing by Jussi Lind, on Flickr

 

[Click]

A Common Tern with Canon 70D + Sigma 150-600 S

Nicely done, LSeries.

 

[tron]

Now you have me really wishing. Some people have it too good!

Jack

Jack sorry for the late answer. The storks you saw were many hundreds kilometers away from home. However, there is a very rare bird in abundance close to my house . An image is worth a thousand words.;D

5DMkIV 100% crop at ISO 1600 with the 100-400 II

 

[Jack Douglas]

Now you have me really wishing. Some people have it too good!

Jack

Jack sorry for the late answer. The storks you saw were many hundreds kilometers away from home. However, there is a very rare bird in abundance close to my house . An image is worth a thousand words.;D

5DMkIV 100% crop at ISO 1600 with the 100-400 II

You got me on this one - looks like our common pigeon??

Jack

 

[AlanF]

Now you have me really wishing. Some people have it too good!

Jack

Jack sorry for the late answer. The storks you saw were many hundreds kilometers away from home. However, there is a very rare bird in abundance close to my house . An image is worth a thousand words.;D

5DMkIV 100% crop at ISO 1600 with the 100-400 II

You got me on this one - looks like our common pigeon??

Jack

It's a (Eurasian) Collared Dove.

 

[Jack Douglas]

Now you have me really wishing. Some people have it too good!

Jack

Jack sorry for the late answer. The storks you saw were many hundreds kilometers away from home. However, there is a very rare bird in abundance close to my house . An image is worth a thousand words.;D

5DMkIV 100% crop at ISO 1600 with the 100-400 II

You got me on this one - looks like our common pigeon??

Jack

It's a (Eurasian) Collared Dove.

So, is it actually rare? It is a very pretty bird.

Jack

 

[tron]

Now you have me really wishing. Some people have it too good!

Jack

Jack sorry for the late answer. The storks you saw were many hundreds kilometers away from home. However, there is a very rare bird in abundance close to my house . An image is worth a thousand words.;D

5DMkIV 100% crop at ISO 1600 with the 100-400 II

You got me on this one - looks like our common pigeon??

Jack

It's a (Eurasian) Collared Dove.

So, is it actually rare? It is a very pretty bird.

Jack

No actually it's not! I was joking! It's actually the opposite and I shot it from my apartment! ;D

 

[AlanF]

It was very misty but this robin was sufficiently close I could get him at 400mm f/4, iso 1250 and 1/100s. Diffuse light can work quite well for showing detail.

 

[tc202]

tc202, nice shot with pleasing background.

Jack

Thank you Jack!

 

[tc202]

A Common Tern with Canon 70D + Sigma 150-600 S

Nicely done, LSeries.

Thank you click!

 

[DominoDude]

It was very misty but this robin was sufficiently close I could get him at 400mm f/4, iso 1250 and 1/100s. Diffuse light can work quite well for showing detail.

That's a jolly good shot, AlanF!
3.86m that have to be close to MFD on that lens, right?

 

[Jack Douglas]

It was very misty but this robin was sufficiently close I could get him at 400mm f/4, iso 1250 and 1/100s. Diffuse light can work quite well for showing detail.

That's a jolly good shot, AlanF!
3.86m that have to be close to MFD on that lens, right?

That's what we like to see, too bad we can't always get it!

Jack