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I struggled a bit with what to post in the March contest. I really wanted to include this one:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...198bd174_h.jpg537A1953 by kayaker72, on Flickr
A bit abstract, but I like it.
Here is also another "current" shot from my walk along the South Bank in London trying to walk off the jet lag.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...1b812846_h.jpg537A6695 by kayaker72, on Flickr
From the recent eclipse, taken in Newport, VT.
"08Apr2024 Total Eclipse"
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EOS R3, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + 1.4xIII, 1/80 s - 1/8000 s, f/8, ISO 200, Baader ASTF 140 filter used except during totality
"Prominences and Beads"
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EOS R3, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + 1.4xIII, 1/6400 s, f/8, ISO 200
"Corona"
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EOS R3, EF 600mm f/4L IS II + 1.4xIII, 1/80 s, f/8, ISO 200
The central image of the composite is itself a merge of two exposures, one for the corona and the other for Baily’s beads. It occurs to me that while corona + Baily’s makes a nice image, Corona + Bailey’s would make a truly disgusting cocktail.
Maybe it's one of those things that sounds gross, but actually works. You'll have to let us know.Quote:
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This is violating all rules that govern the universe as I know them…
What happens when beer and liquor are one??? And not one coming before the other???
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A few of my other eclipse pictures. Taken outside of Austin, Texas (Spicewood).
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This shot was taken shortly after the above and you can see how we were battling clouds right up until totality. Fortunately, we had a couple of clear moments during totality.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d3bb7174_h.jpg537A7573 by kayaker72, on Flickr
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https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...198298a8_h.jpg537A7606 by kayaker72, on Flickr
My other favorite of the day:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...20f379f5_h.jpgIn Explore - 537A7637 by kayaker72, on Flickr
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A couple from a day trip to San Antonio Botanical gardens the Saturday before the eclipse:
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...89ff785f_h.jpgIMG_3281 by kayaker72, on Flickr
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...d445b406_h.jpgIMG_3301 by kayaker72, on Flickr
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I just picked up a R6 II (since it went on sale), primarily to take better pictures of my dog... My 5DS autofocus can't even hope to keep up, and the ergonomics of my M6 II are less than ideal for this kind of thing. It felt like time to get a new camera. I'm using all adapted EF lenses for now.
Took her out to play fetch in some dandelions yesterday, figured that would be a good first test. I need to fiddle with the AF settings, because my keep-rate was still not as high as I expected (expectations based likely on hype from optimistic youtubers). It may be that my EF 70-300L just can't keep up with a dog running at full speed towards the camera. I got some nice images, but there were plenty that missed autofocus. Still better than any of my other cameras, though.
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Nailed eye focus when she's sitting still.
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Congrats on the new camera and great images!
Yes tinker, but I will say, I’ve always struggled with animals running straight at you. Side to side is much better.
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70-300L does pretty good keeping up with a running dog, even towards the camera but:
Older cameras:
Change from one-shot AF to Servo AF. By the time the shutter releases, the dog will have moved. You need focus tracking.
Change the release from shutter to focus. This should be set for both the first shot, and subsequent shots. Shutter release takes the picture when you press the shutter, great for getting very specific timing, best if pre-focussed... not ideal for tracking a moving animal. Until this point, the camera has been tracking the moving dog, but not predicting it, and you'll get a blurry dog with a sharp tail. When you choose focus release, the camera will start predicting the motion, focussing slightly in front of the dog so that when the shutter opens the dog will be in focus. Note, this *can* cause a delay before the first shot of a burst is taken, as motion must be detected, predicted, and focus updated.
Newer cameras (basing on my R7's manual... no actual running dog experience with this camera yet):
Either, Enable Servo AF, or, change One-Shot release priority to Focus. As above. You don't seem to need to change Servo AF to focus release priority anymore. I guess that's because there's no delay with moving mirrors (or perhaps it's a limitation of the R7).
All cameras:
Your lens needs to move glass around much further to change focus near the camera, making it harder to maintain focus. Tracking when at 300mm will work far better than attempting to track at 70mm. Do not change zoom mid-burst. Focus tracking doesn't know what's going on if you're zooming out to keep the dog framed... the dog will maintain good framing longer at 300mm than at 70mm.
I decided to head out last night to see if the aurora forecast was going to amount to anything. It did. I'm amazed at the show we got in Iowa. I'm glad I made the drive to a state park and escaped some of the light pollution. I've been to this park several times before, but never for landscape photography, and I never imagined I'd be looking for compositions with the aurora overhead.
Was a good test for the R6 II for landscape photography. I'm not sure my 5DS will ever get used after dark.
EF 24mm F/1.4L II, 24mm, ISO 3200, f/2.8, 4s
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EF 16-35mm F/4L IS, 21mm, ISO 3200, f/5, 25s
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EF 16-35mm F/4L IS, 27mm, ISO 1600, f/5.6, 30s
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Great shots!
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[QUOTE=C4RBON;106178]I decided to head out last night to see if the aurora forecast was going to amount to anything. It did. I'm amazed at the show we got in Iowa. I'm glad I made the drive to a state park and escaped some of the light pollution. I've been to this park several times before, but never for landscape photography, and I never imagined I'd be looking for compositions with the aurora overhead.
Was a good test for the R6 II for landscape photography. I'm not sure my 5DS will ever get used after dark.
EF 24mm F/1.4L II, 24mm, ISO 3200, f/2.8, 4s
EF 16-35mm F/4L IS, 21mm, ISO 3200, f/5, 25s
EF 16-35mm F/4L IS, 27mm, ISO 1600, f/5.6, 30s
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It was quite the show from what I heard. Not sure how far north in Iowa you are from roughly Omaha (I'm there), but some great shots here.
Lovely shots, @C4RBON! I looked for an aurora over the weekend, but didn't see anything. Then again, I was at home and I live in a Bortle class 5 area.
Back out taking pictures of my dog with the R6II and EF 70-300L. I've got everything set up where it nails eye focus if her head is clearly visible and she's not running at full speed. After all this rain we got, the plant shot up to my waist level, which is well over her head. So with the brush in the way it was difficult for the camera to lock on focus (admittedly it was difficult for me to even see her, let alone take pictures). The camera usually picks her curled tail up first and thinks its an eye, which I find amusing. If she'd just stay still for half a second I'd get more keepers!
Standing still, it locks on her eye quickly and I'm getting close to 100% keepers.
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Since the grass is over her head, she stands on her hind legs to get a look where she's going, which was very difficult to capture, since her head is only visible above the plants for a split second and then she's back under.
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This is a crop of a 300mm shot. Focus is a bit in front of her face, but at these resolutions it looks fine.
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Tried the new blur feature in Lightroom for this one. Does the blur look too fake to anyone?
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Nice shots Jayson. I particularly like the GBH, how it is almost at eye level.
Clearly, Jayson has all his ducks in a row. Heron shot is great too.
Glacier above Les Diablerets, Switzerland, elevation 3000 m.
"Glacier 3000"
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EOS R8, RF 10-20mm f/L IS STM @ 10mm, 1/400 s, f/8, ISO 100
It looks like you came just a few kilometers away from my home. I never went to Glacier 3000 though, but there are several places in Switzerland that I've seen less than a lot of tourists have.Quote:
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So I went back to Bolivia 6 years after my first trip there. This time, photography was definitely not a priority, but I took my R8 and 3 lenses. Most of the pictures I took were of my family and I won't share them here, but we still had the time to do a little day trip a little further away from the city we were staying in. So here are a few of them, all taken with the RF 24-240...
First a little view on the mountains from the side of the road. We were around 3800m of elevation.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...a02e5821_b.jpgMountains of Bolivia by Pierre, on Flickr
There are a few lagoons in the upper valley.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...237dbebc_b.jpgLaguna Pujzara by Pierre, on Flickr
With some flamingos looking for food.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...bb83d999_b.jpgFlamingos by Pierre, on Flickr
More suprisingly, on the other side of the lagoon, there is a little desert with sand dunes.
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...3c73092d_b.jpgSand Dunes of Tajzara by Pierre, on Flickr
...and extinct volcanoes
https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/...7c99cbd8_b.jpgSand... and an extinct volcano by Pierre, on Flickr
Beautiful
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Amazing photos Pierre!
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Thank you very much ! It was a wonderful day.Quote:
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