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Very beautiful, colorful, and quite exotic to me. Well done!And few from today - very different environment (typical rain forest). Nothing rare/first time met - just the opposite but I love them: Red-billed Leiothrix and baby White-rumped Shama. Very low light (on tripod).
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The Yellow-rumped Warbler is a fun shot as you can see the flying insect as well. It's a heroic effort getting that on an R. What shutter speed did you use? The 6m minimum focal distance does limit what you can do with it.This weekend I borrowed the RF 800mm to be used with EOS R (yes, no R5/R6). I wanted to check weight, noise handling and image quality. Surprisingly it worked fine with both stationary and flying birds in a cloudy and gloomy day. No serious issue, except the minimum focus distance which is too long.
A big-horned owl and aflycatcherYellow-rumped Warbler, both hand held at obviously 800mm and f/11.
TheflycatcherYellow-rumped Warbler was busy chasing the bugs but It seems that our owl friend liked the lens, too.
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Thanks Alan. The warbler's shot was 1/1000 sec, ISO800, sequence of 5. Actually, it was repeatedly flying and coming back to the same spot so focus was rather easy, and surprisingly the RF 800mm lens was reacting quite fast and was not clunky at all.The Yellow-rumped Warbler is a fun shot as you can see the flying insect as well. It's a heroic effort getting that on an R. What shutter speed did you use? The 6m minimum focal distance does limit what you can do with it.
Thanks Click. The shop I rented the lens from didn't have R5, so I was forced to use R which is still quite capable camera.Very nice shots, bhf3737.
You clearly had a great day! Very nice.Still getting a feel for the 100-500L. It's clearly the best long zoom I've used. I believe it matches the 100-400L--sharpness, clarity, color rendition--and gives you an additional 100mm to boot in an extremely compact package. My hit rate for BIF shots has also improved.
It was a bit of an overcast day with intermittent rain showers. That actually established a mood that I don't normally capture.
Here is the majestic ahinga. It can often look goofy when it spreads it wing and points its beak to the sky, but this pose highlights its beauty.
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I normally don't shoot small birds, so this was different for me. Here is a yellow warbler being rather attentive.
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This one's more relaxed.
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Here is a male common yellow throat. I love the black mask on his face.
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Cardinals are probably my most-shot bird, but mostly in my backyard. This wet one is one of my few shots in the wild.
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I employed a slightly different processing method with this great blue. I'm trying to decide if I like it.
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Snowy egrets are fairly common here, but I really like the background.
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A couple more cavorting around in the trees.
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I normally avoid vultures, but these black vultures are moving through the area, and they are more interesting looking than the more common turkey vultures in the area.
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Thank you Alan.You clearly had a great day! Very nice.
Had a Yellow Crowned Night Heron fly in and land on a rock, then migrate to an even closer rock, to the point the 600 was too much for a full portrait. This is a landscape crop of the portrait orientation shot of it giving me a yawn. Still very impressed with the R5's performance.
R5 w/600 f/4L II 1/1600 : f/10 : ISO 1000
Another Great Horned Owl from last weekend (EOS-R + RF 800mm f/11)
Thanks Click! We still had a hint of smoke at dawn from the Valley Fire so that helped through the first hour.Beautiful portrait, ERHP. I really like that golden light on the bird.