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I avoid shooting weddings, for the most part I find them depressing.

However here are my thoughts:

The minimum requirements to be a professional wedding photographer are as follows:
1. Own or...

What is possible, without a doubt and has been done before, is a high resolution sensor in a 1 body with the build quality and superior AF system to go along with it.
They have shown with the R1...

Nope, it is not just you. It is many of us.
I thought Digital Cameras would have gotten to the point that one body can do it all. The 1Ds IV never came and will we ever see a high MP sensor in a 1...

My opinion as of right now is one of indifference, it really hasn't set the world on fire.
Even worse my opinion of the body keeps falling.


I see may positives with the R5, and it is an...

Congrats Jonathan, great composition.
You were being a little tricky with your submissions this week.

You could try a bigger bird about 3/4 of a mile away.
https://live.staticflickr.com/5219/5443281247_b8a05d363d_z.jpgBB1H4990A by hdnitehawk01, on Flickr

I puzzled on this a few years ago with a static tree.
The only way I came up with where both the bird and the moon are sharp is to focus stack, overlay two separate images.
Perhaps the best to hope...

After Oz on the Road Home

https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/52026548849_0954a119f7_o.jpgAfter Oz on the Road Home by hdnitehawk01, on Flickr

The sharpening did help.

I am editing the wedding photos from the other night, the wife walked up behind me and said wow that's great when did you take that? It kind of confused me because she was...

If you do what Joel suggested I would like to see the "after" results of the 1Dx III uncropped picture.
Maybe it will give it more kick.

I agree completely with your comments about DOF and the eye.

For what is worth I would have done the same thing you did. Pixel peeped and tried to see if I could have cropped.

But I have to say...

Look at the talons and the branch it is sitting on. To Joel's comment front focus might be a little of it.

It looks like the Owl bobbed his head back in the 1Dx III pic and leaned more forward in...

The test would be the 500mm with an adapter on the R5 and the 1DX III without.
You sure it isn't the difference in resolution that you are noticing?
I was looking at other points in the picture and...

The spot AF seems like it will be a negative for me. It sounds like you are doing the same thing I am doing, trying to find the balance in the camera for the right settings. Last weekend was the...

Bird takeoffs are tough. They explode so fast it is hard for the AF to kick in. If those shots were sequential in five frames a whole 1/3 of a second elapsed +/-. That's pretty demanding. Also here...

We went to Carlsbad a few years ago, and the path we took is from the East. I was surprised and from how it looked the only way I know how to describe it is a natural disaster waiting to happen.
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Congratulations John, beautiful bird and capture.

I guess I am a health conscious Canon user.

I think I would take Basque Del Apache over Nebraska.

Of course if you go there Roswell is a few hours away and you can visit the UFO Museum to find out the truth.
Then of course Carlsbad and...

The red sky is the big teller in 6. The sky alone sets it apart.
I think it probably is closer to what you were seeing at that moment.
6b has more depth IMO.

5a tends to be the same way, but it...

It is the color that is the difference.
Are both of those adjusted, first original second your modified?

Adjusting the balance in those two images, notice the grass off to the left. Notice the...

So not a competition but as a blind taste test this is my preference:
1A, 2 (No Preference not comparable), 3A, 4A, 5A, 6B and 7B.

I assumed that in 1A those were birds and not dirt on your lens.

Legendary is the key word. Old and elite in their time may be another description.
Decades old technology is another description.
Unlike many of the current lenses, the older versions had to be...

It seems to me I loose something downloading even to Flickr.
In the instance of the pic I poste the sun reflection at the tip of the beak on the computer at home is a perfect little star burst, and...

I edited and I saved it at its largest file size on Flickr and posted to TDP. TDP downsized it but now it looks better on the TDP side to me.

Thanks