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Wildlife Moderator
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Very nice Steve. I get the feeling that I am there, looking at the bird. The BG colours suit the bird perfectly. Very nice 'soft' feather detail. Very good pose and HA. The OOF stanes gives a sense of depth to the image. I like it a lot.
Will
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Story Sequences Moderator and Wildlife Moderator
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Boy Steve you pulled this one out of the hat. What a beauty. Colors are so great and soft. Like Will said its like you are there that is the first thing I thought. Your processing is fantastic. Wish mine was half as good. TFS.
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Hi Will, thanks for popping by and posting a comment.
I was lucky with the light, but also can influence where the Kestrels go too and can maximise the location. In addition there is now even less work applied and the raws are just so easy to now process based on camera tweaks and PP, so less is more. Detail is exceptional, but using EF lens there is no difference in IQ and I recently picked up another lens for a fraction of the RF lens and the sharpness and IQ is on a par. I had on order the 200-800 on order, but its pants and reverted back to the MKII I sold you. So don't think oh I need to go to RF, depending on your lens you may find the older stuff is better, albeit I now have quite a collection of lens which was a beast to bring across.
Hope all is well with you and the shoulder is OK now.
Cheers
Steve
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Hi Gabriela, long time no see.
I think we both have been lucky with our camera tweaks delivering more, but reviewing some of the raws, its the depth now that is coming out far more I hope, so Im really happy making the changes before this trip. To that point, the images could be very beneficial for next year.
Superb work, so looking forward to more from you! Any chance we might get to see some fledgelings at some stage?
I'm going back in just over a weeks time, who knows what may come out, but it would be nice to see the young Kestrels, but the adults are nailing the jackdaws constantly. Hope you get a chance to do some shooting soon, or some from your K trip ie LBR with some nice PP.
Have a lovely evening, I'm missing the Hyenas and Lions calling at night.
Steve
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Boy Steve you pulled this one out of the hat. What a beauty. Colors are so great and soft. Like Will said it's OW like you are there that is the first thing I thought. Your processing is fantastic. Wish mine was half as good. TFS.
WOW, thanks Kevin, I'm glad you like it, content is perhaps a tad pedestrian, but this year I have spent a lot of time reevaluating both camera and PP as I tend to do, which I'm hoping in the coming months will start to come through more, but still keeping the cornerstone of all my WF the same, its just making some subtle changes and tweaks, but committed to shooting in a different way based on the camera set up.
It does help with large ares of low frequency detail ie the BKG and high frequency detail in the subject, but with minimal NR you retain so much more and avoid over sharpening because the NR has flatted the detail.
The AF for both R5 & R3 just kept nailing the captures and where it missed was either down to me, or something I hadn't expect to past, having only a split second to get the capture, you will understand more when some images are finally posted in Wildlife.
Thanks again.
Steve
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