Show your Bird Portraits
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I wanted to show 10 contiguous frames from a R5 8K raw video I took. On a tripod, RF 70-200mm f2.8 at f8, 1/3000", 200mm, 24 fps, almost at minimum focus distance. Since I can't process raws in my DXO Photolab yet, I converted the 8K wide frames to jpg and then cropped those little in DXO plus a little sharpening, contrast & saturation and exported as 2.5K wide to view.
I know this is nothing unusual or exotic, but at the moment for this R5 newbie not able to travel far from home due to Covid, this will have to do. I do wish Canon offered an option to only take photos within a video when it sees something appreciably moving (like a hummingbird coming into view) so that the video wouldn't have 16.5 minutes of an empty feeder with just a minute or less of hummingbird shots.
I know this is nothing unusual or exotic, but at the moment for this R5 newbie not able to travel far from home due to Covid, this will have to do. I do wish Canon offered an option to only take photos within a video when it sees something appreciably moving (like a hummingbird coming into view) so that the video wouldn't have 16.5 minutes of an empty feeder with just a minute or less of hummingbird shots.
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Thanks Click and Usern4cr! The funny thing is that all photos are from the same spot: there was a male Shama (parent I suppose) just few yards from the spot and it was pretty silent (these are smart guys, they are not afraid that much of humans and they know this by their own experience!). For difference the Leiothrix (few of them!) were screaming like I'm an alien monster and the security of the planet depends on them
! These are very agile birds even when not agitated! In that light I got plenty of photos like the one below (should I post them in the abstracts - don't really think so: it would be a parody of real abstract!).
! These are very agile birds even when not agitated! In that light I got plenty of photos like the one below (should I post them in the abstracts - don't really think so: it would be a parody of real abstract!).
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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 aflycatcher Yellow-rumped Warbler, both hand held at obviously 800mm and f/11.
Theflycatcher Yellow-rumped Warbler was busy chasing the bugs but It seems that our owl friend liked the lens, too.
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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 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.
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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.
I normally don't shoot small birds, so this was different for me. Here is a yellow warbler being rather attentive.
This one's more relaxed.
Here is a male common yellow throat. I love the black mask on his face.
Cardinals are probably my most-shot bird, but mostly in my backyard. This wet one is one of my few shots in the wild.
I employed a slightly different processing method with this great blue. I'm trying to decide if I like it.
Snowy egrets are fairly common here, but I really like the background.
A couple more cavorting around in the trees.
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.
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.
I normally don't shoot small birds, so this was different for me. Here is a yellow warbler being rather attentive.
This one's more relaxed.
Here is a male common yellow throat. I love the black mask on his face.
Cardinals are probably my most-shot bird, but mostly in my backyard. This wet one is one of my few shots in the wild.
I employed a slightly different processing method with this great blue. I'm trying to decide if I like it.
Snowy egrets are fairly common here, but I really like the background.
A couple more cavorting around in the trees.
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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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
R5 w/600 f/4L II 1/1600 : f/10 : ISO 1000
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