Birds In Flight - Post Yours!

[Jack Dawe]

Yes, I do the same, I choose the Low Light setting most often as it seems to sharpen the least but what Low Light does is give very ugly edge artifacts, not unlike chromatic aberrations. But I clean those up later and then the end result is pretty decent.

Yes. I found your post on getting rid of sharpening halos very helpful. I used it on the shearwater above and also (with the opacity reduced to 50%) for darkening the white artefects I mentioned.

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Yes. I found your post on getting rid of sharpening halos very helpful. I used it on the shearwater above and also (with the opacity reduced to 50%) for darkening the white artefects I mentioned.

Yeah, there are more ways to deal with them but I find this is a quick and easy way to get rid of them. Good to know it was useful.

 

[sidknee]

red kites

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

red kites

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The first shot is so good, Sid.

What the smaller bird in the second shot? It's a bit hard to see.

 

[sidknee]

The first shot is so good, Sid.

What the smaller bird in the second shot? It's a bit hard to see.

Thanks Levina, they are both red kites in the second shot, it's a bit of an optical oddity!
Here's a slightly more cropped version....

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

Thanks Levina, they are both red kites in the second shot, it's a bit of an optical oddity!
Here's a slightly more cropped version....


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LOL yes, I now see it! It is an optical oddity all right! Pretty cool.

 

[Terry McDaniel]

This is not a quality shot as the birds were too far away, but it shows how well the R5m2 performs and how much I can crop (this is about 2400px on the wide end, so a BIG crop).
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I wish my pictures were that poor quality!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

I wish my pictures were that poor quality!

Thank you for the compliment, Terry. But it really was a big crop so even with 45mpx you lose definition in the feathers.

But then, are we ever satisfied with how our pictures turn out? I know I hardly ever am. We're too harsh on ourselves!

 

[sidknee]

Here's a short video, phone quality, of the kites at my hide yesterday. A magpie makes the first move which encourages the kites and then a buzzard lands and stands it's ground.

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[Levina de Ruijter]

Here's a short video, phone quality, of the kites at my hide yesterday. A magpie makes the first move which encourages the kites and then a buzzard lands and stands it's ground.

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Great video, Sid. So many birds! Amazing.