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That was me, editing them. I wanted them in the gallery, but only images from the Photo Sharing forums are mirrored there, so I uploaded them again to the Birds in Flight thread and then removed them here and inserted the BBCode from the gallery. They should be here now.
They show, and it was pretty close indeed
Great shot with great image quality.
Nice and sharpJeff, you have rekindled my interest in the 800/11. Today I tried it on some gulls. They were shot from home and they were very close indeed. It was hard locking on to them, but not as hard as I thought it would be. I came away with a great many good shots. Most are already deleted, but here are two that I particularly like.
It's truly amazing I managed to lock focus on them, mid flight, from such a close distance.
Lost the wing tip there. Yes, full frame shot.
Canon EOS R5m2 . RF800mm f11 IS STM . F/11 . 800mm . 1/3200s . ISO 2500
This one was really close, lost both wing tips and decided to crop in a bit more.
Canon EOS R5m2 . RF800mm f11 IS STM . f/11 . 800mm . 1/3200 . ISO 1000
Yes, it worked well on these gulls, but not so much on the Godwits in the field last Friday. I was shooting a Northern Lapwing sitting in the field with the 800/11 when suddenly a group of Black-tailed godwits took off and started flying around. These birds are much faster flyers than gulls and they were chasing one another and they were very close. I simply couldn't focus on them with the 800/11. Only when they moved away a bit did I finally manage to lock on to them, but by then I had three in the frame a distance away instead of a single one from up close. If I had the 100-500 mounted I would not have missed those close-up shots.