Boy is that 1D mk2 good!!

[KBMphotography.com]

IT Arrived today - just 6 days after ordering in Jessops (Reading UK)

THese were 1 hr after unwrapping!!

Yeee haa!

http://www.pbase.com/image/29117939.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/29117880.jpg
http://www.pbase.com/image/29117813.jpg

[minicooper]

Wow! Great shots. I'd be interested to know where abouts you took those; I am from Basingstoke.

Tom

[KBMphotography.com]

The Hawk Conservancy nr Andover (just off the A303 and it is well signposted)

www.hawk-conservancy.org

[minicooper]

Excellent, I may have to take a trip down there!!

Congrats on your new camera!

[Ikinaa]

I like the first picture...
the owl (?) looks at you and thinks : 'Oh no another one with a new MKII' :lol:

[KBMphotography.com]

mini - do it - you will love the opportunites for taken pictures in natural surroundings.

Heavy-Lift.....

http://www.pbase.com/image/29118681.jpg

High Speed pass by a Lanner Falcon

http://www.pbase.com/image/29119447.jpg

[roanjohn]

OMG!!! I am speechless!!!

Ro1

[Jemook]

I too, am speechless.

[Jemook]

I too, am speechless.

[msnow]

Great shots!

[KBMphotography.com]

Thanks guys.

I will sleep with it under my pillow as tonight is our first night together!!!

On a serious note: When you put it on high speed shooting mode it sounds like a self loading pistol going off !! (I played it to a mate over the car phone today!!!!) It really is much noisier (real BLING!!!!!)

(NOW SOLD THE 10D :()

[CyberDyneSystems]

I three am speechless!........

[defordphoto]

In-freaking-credible! Those are some of (if not THE) most breathtaking photos I've seen produced from this camera. Good work!

[photobuff]

EXTREMELY intense pics........that first one is amazing....an amazing creature, as well :wink:
Quite possibly the best animal pic I have ever ran across...at least in the tops :D


Steve

[ron chappel]

Man those pics are good!
The first owl pic is amazing and the vulture one....! i've never seen a bird pic from that angle i think.Very good

[Mills]

WOW.........JUST........WOW....................... .....

[Canoman1978]

clean, crisp.....simply wonderful pictures. Thats one heck of a camera..congrads

[drisley]

Those first 2 are incredible! What lens were you using?

Man, technology is wonderfull! They make those radio controlled owls SO realistic nowadays!

[burkdog]

Wow. :shock:

[LazyPhotographer]

Fantastic images!

[pradeep1]

Wow. 8) I am drooling.

[Jemook]

I must of stared at the first picture for over 10 minutes.. its simply breathtaking.

[Ikinaa]

Wasn't there once a thread called : "Your camera sure takes good pictures" (http://photography-on-the.net/forum/showthread.php?t=25964)

This whole thread reminds me of that.

My opinion is that YOU took nice pictures, the camera helping a bit...

[KBMphotography.com]

Thanks people for your kind words...! :oops:

I used my 70-200mm F2.8 L IS and 1.4x Mk2 converter

A Question then....

I am fairly new to wildlife pics - where is a good market to sell them? I have contacts for aircraft mag's but need some outlet for the 1D to help pay for it!!! :)

[rick barclay]

Beautiful!

I'll never get pictures like that with my 300D.

[SoCal69]

All of them are amazing, but the owl shots... well... WOW!

[KBMphotography.com]

Rick - youCAN get pictures just like that mate - give it a go!

http://www.pbase.com/image/29175300/original.jpg

[rick barclay]

I was praying someone would come along and say that!

I guess I'll keep my camera, then.

[chris.bailey]

Damn those are fine, I have been resisting the temptation but those have raised the stakes a bit

[ron chappel]

You bet the 300D can get pics like that! :D :D
You'll just get a whole lot more duds is all , because of the slower focus


Alan,can you tell us how much that last pic was cropped and at what iso it was taken at?
From the demo images i've seen from the mkII it seems to have lower(?) noise than the 10D

[KBMphotography.com]

This is the full frame verison (1/4 the original size) with nothing done to it.
http://www.pbase.com/image/29180797/original.jpg

I must admit I didn't actually manipulate it particularly well.

ISO 400 1/2500 F4.0 @ 115mm
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[rodbunn]

I would try contacting a few bird or wildlife magazines and offer
them the pics. They USUALLY have set amounts they will offer you
but it's negotiable. You can put a "watermark" on them and send
a few samples to the magazines. I think they are great shots and
you would get a reaction sending them for review.

There are places that buy "stock" photography but you don't get much.
You can also set up your own web page and try selling them, the more
you display the better chance of a sale. You'ld be surprised at how
many people are "looking" on the net to purchase photos for whatever
project they are working on.

Good pics! and good luck!

Rod

[RichardtheSane]

The owls are fantastic, really good.

The lanner falcon however...... please tell me that was one of many attempts. Don't tell me you nailed the shot first time..... ( I know how quick they are on the flat and level...!!)

My lanner falcon with the 10D

after many attempts

http://www.richardlindley.co.uk/raptors/crw_5640_std.jpg

[Jesper]

Yes, here's the proof that you can make photos of the same subject with a 10D! http://jesper.fotopic.net/p5275877.html

(the only difference is that in my case the owl was sitting still....) :roll: :lol:

[Mark Kemp]

Very good pictures,

I am waitng for a call back to tell me they have a MK2 in stock - Probably late July and then I will probably buy it because, compared to my D30

1) more pictures will be in focus in situations like the owl.

2) you will get more pictures anyway in the same situation, so you will have a better chance of a good one.

3) the extra pixels 8.3m over 3.1m means that you can crop much more easily.

4) there is much less noise at higher ISO

So I guess you have convinced me - when I go bankrupt I am blaming you and these pictures!

I know what you mean about the shutter - I played with the demo camera at Focus and nearly dropped it! I just barely brushed the shutter button and it rattled off half a dozen shots. If it was film this camera would shoot out a whole roll of 36 in less than 5 seconds!

I have one question - are these pics straight from camera or did you USM them a bit?

[KevinO]

Consider my gob thoroughly smacked :!: :!: :shock: :shock: 8) 8)

[droosan]

This is the full frame verison (1/4 the original size) with nothing done to it.
I must admit I didn't actually manipulate it particularly well.

ISO 400 1/2500 F4.0 @ 115mm
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I can't even see the fishing wire the owl's suspended on. :wink:

What's the lens?

[Mark Kemp]

oops - oh yeah - 'with nothing done to it' so no USM then i guess.

You would think that an alleged photographer would be more observant :oops:

[Emmanual Lewis]

I'm not worthy!
Maybe if I trade in my Mini Cooper for a Motorcycle I can afford one!

[KBMphotography.com]

Thanks again for the comments. Believe it or not, the lanner falcon was just after the owl in the demo and was literally my 30th frame with the 1Dmk2!

All with the 70-200mm F2.8 L IS.

Cheers

[LazyPhotographer]

Everyone agrees these are just awesome shots - and a great motivator for those of us new to the camera. Can you share with us the camera set-up used when these were taken? And also, a recap of your post-processing workflow and tools?

Some of this is really new to many of us and aside from the "try a bunch of settings and see what works" method, seeing examples and settings info from GREAT images on working cameras does help us get our bearings.

Thanks in advance..

[KBMphotography.com]

Thanks for the comments.

Lazy - if you go to the pbase link you can view all the info on each picture.

With regard to the processing - I use Adobe Photoshop CS with the RAW2 plug in. I tend to use a minimal amount of sharpening (less than 85% and less than 0.7 radius and 0 threshold)

For these I also adjusted the levels and used the curves function. Selective colour was also used slilghtly.

That's about it!

Cheers