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Really nice shots this week guys!! Quite the catch on your last one, Joel! Fantastic!
I am taking the day off work tomorrow to go eagle scouting since the sun is suppose to be shining for one brief day and I am starting to feel better!
Wish me luck! I am not sure how long they hang around this area in Wisconsin so I hope they are still there!
Denise
Nice capture Joel, an ethereal quality, nice feel.
I saw the same three birds on one of my first outings with the 1D Mark IV last May, at a country park in the north east of Scotland.Quote:
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Mute Swan, 1D Mark IV, EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 200mm f/8, 1/1000s, ISO 200
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Canada Goose and Gosling, 1D Mark IV, EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 200mm f/8, 1/200s, ISO 200
There were three more goslings under the adult's wing
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Sleepy Mallard, 1D Mark IV, EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS USM @ 125mm f/2.8, 1/500s, ISO 200
I notice that the bird in Joel's third picture doesn't have the white band around the collar that I see on Mallards in Europe. Is it a juvenile? A hybrid? A North American subspecies? Something else? Just curious...
Thanks, Bob. Glad you liked it, and sorry to have kept you waiting. Here are a couple more ocean wanderers...Quote:
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Wandering Albatross, 5D Mark II, EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm, f/6.3, 1/320s, ISO 100
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Black-Browed Albatross, 5D Mark II, EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm, f/7.1, 1/500s, ISO 100
I was awake early to catch this one at sunrise with the light underneath it.
thanks Steve, Rick ,Joel and Denise for your kind words, really appreciate it!
Joel, the Dove picture is really cool, I really like the motion blur of the wings, also good PP work to cloned out the unwanted subject!
Andy, I like the goose with the baby picture very much! I
JJ, I think you are being hard on yourself. I don't see much difference between my shots and yours in terms of how 'clean' they are. Maybe you notice it more in your full size images.Quote:
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The larger sensor of the 5D II and 1D IV helps a lot with noise, but I sometimes notice pattern noise in the shadows on my 5D II. I often use a lower ISO and a longer exposure time than I really should for wildlife shots. You wouldn't normally try to shoot a flying albatross at 1/320s and I missed a lot of shots that day by trying to keep my ISO low. I know now that I don't need to worry so much about low ISO with the 5D and 1D. Where necessary, I use Lightroom 2 for noise reduction, but this often isn't required for the web. I pay more attention to noise if I'm going to be printing a shot.
I export as jpeg without resizing, with quality set to 100 and the standard amount of sharpening for screen output. I upload the full size (10-15 MB) jpeg to flickr but what you see here is a downsized version at 800 pixels wide (or 640 pixels tall for portrait shots).
Andy, very very nice images.....that Antarctica trip looks like it was amazing. The 5D2 does well with wildlife and should be able to go to very high iso levels without much noise. I have seen plenty of shots at iso 3200 without a problem.
PS: The Male Mallards here also have the white band around the neck, I believe the one I shot was a juvenile as you suggested.
Another Canada Goose from this past weekend .... I was shooting the birds just slowly swimming around and didn't have enough light for really high shutter speed so I was panning with this one to try to get the head sharp and it came out pretty good, but probably should have bumped the iso even more to get more speed. This bird suddenly started chasing another one and I wasn't ready for the action.
1DMKIII, 300mm 2.8L + 1.4TC, 1/100 f/5.6 iso 1000
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Joel, thanks for clearing up the query about the mallard. That's a fantastic action shot of the goose. I think you caught it just right as it really has a feeling of motion in the wings and feet.
I checked my archives for higher ISO shots and found this one at ISO 1000. Bonus points for anyone that can identify the species (shot in Argentina):
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5D Mark II, EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm, f/8, 1/400s, ISO 1000, cropped.
Then there's this example at ISO 5000:
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1D Mark IV, EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS USM @ 400mm, f/5.6, 1/1000s, ISO 5000, cropped.
The second one really needed the high shutter speed (and the 10 fps frame rate of the 1D IV). I need to get a 500mm f/4L if I'm to bring the ISO down to a reasonable level. A bit of bright sunshine would help too, but there's not much chance of that in a typical Scottish summer.
I think that could be a nice example of the Argentinian yellow beaked black headed brown bird, heh heh.
Andy, I really like the mother goose.
Below where from this last weekend. Both where from 7D, 100-<span style="background-color: #ffffff;"]400<span style="color: #ff0000;"]L @ 400mm, f/5.6, 1/4000 sec
A couple of Love Birds
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well i guess i just didn't know how to express what i felt, it seems like it(the clean looking) is related to the noise level after reading your reply.
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that's a good tip, thank you Andy!
Joel, I really like your
Thanks Pieter,
The exposure settings I had were determined by taking shots and looking at the histogram, it was very heavily overcast and the ambient light was poor, thus the slow shutter speed.. I was hand holding the 1DMKIII with the 300mm 2.8 and the 1.4TC no problem. I was shooting ducks and geese slowly swimming when one goose started to chase another across the water .... I just panned along with it
Andy,
That Argentinian bird has to be some kind of Robin or Thrush, I don
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I think that's as close as anyone is likely to get to the right answer. It's a Magellanic Thrush, a subspecies of the Austral Thrush.
Long Billed Curlew, Alafia River, Florida .. last September
1DMKIII
500mm f/4 + 1.4 TCII
Tripod
1/1250
f/8
iso 400
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Got it today, lucky or unlucky? I don't know, these two are out of maybe 500 shouts of this hawk
7D, 500mm 4.0, f4.5 1/800, ISO200
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7D, 500mm 4.0 f4.0, 1/2500, ISO1600
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the last one is a uncropped one, I really wanted to kick myself after I viewed this one and wished I was using my 300mm[:@]
thanks for viewing!
JJ they look really good
Did you notice the hawk is banded?
thanks Rick!, and yes, I did noticed that, but I don
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check out that link JJ if you are in California
Rick,thanks again for the information!
Pretty spectacular JJ, what a beautiful bird. Blood thirsty big sucker though isn
Just got my 60D and better beamer yesterday night. I love it![:D] I'll keep you posted with the latest shots hopefully latter on today.
I'mone happy camper today,
John.
That is gruesome and totally awesome. Great shots JJ!!!
JJ..... very nice Raptor encounter .... I think YOU were lucky and the Coot was unlucky! Sometimes with the 500 your subject can come unexpectedly too close ..... you need another camera body with a shorter lens on a Black Rapid strap for just such events[;)]
I had a similar experience on some Brown Pelicans in Florida when I rented a 500mm, even with the 1.3 crop factor some of them came too close ....
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thanks guys for the comments!
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I have been thinking about that, it's just hard to pick one, 7D or 1D IV, or 1DIII?, maybe 3D or 5DIII, I just don't know what to do[:D]
Shot of the day with my new 60D. What do ya think?
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I didn't instal DPP and had to use Paint to downrez so the quality is not the best, but I'm to exited to wait right now![:D] I'll do that later.
Edit. I reloaded the picture in a higher quality compresion using DPP, now it's much better.
Cheers,
John!
John, very nice shot and congrats on he new camera.
nice shot. The EXIF says 50mm? Is this your Minolta?
Yes, it
nice shot, John! congrats on the 60D!
While waiting for some ABEs, I got lucky and spotted a Peregrine falcon and got even luckier capturing it in flight.
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Very very cool Bill [:D]
I would be tempted to clone out part of the branch just in front of the bird, what a nice shot, well done
very very nice BIF Bill! like it very much!
here is the another shot of the red tailed hawk
7D, 500mm 4.0, f4.0, 1/2500, ISO640
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thanks for viewing!
Thanks Joel and JJ....like I said, I got lucky.
BTW....Joel, I did clone out the pine bow portion of the branch in one copy and the whole branch in another, but I just couldn
another nice shot JJ....I like the full face. All birds look so different when we
JJ. As usual, great shot. I like this one the best out of the series of this hawk. It almost seems like the hawk is in a victory pose.
I got so lucky today! These ducks were very coraporative and I actually didn't have to crop the pair and only slightly the single one. But I still had to use my 2X extender.
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ISO 6400, 2000th of a second, wide open, tripod. Used DXO to proccess the RAW and DPP to downrez them.
As luck would have it, MY 60D LCDBLANKED OUT!!!!!!![:@] But this time I've a return policy![Y] But the camera still works so I can take pictures untill I send it back.
John.
thanks Bill and Kayaker for your kind words!
John, 2XTC with MF,, these shots are just awesome!!