New(ish) 500/4 and this time small birds

[Anders Östberg]

This is the ongoing saga of me practicing with my new lens...
...and partly a friendly tease of CDS (stop dreaming and get this lens if you can, its niiiice :))

This time it's sitting birds. Forgive me if you have already seen these in some other forum,
I got carried away and posted in a couple of places. :o

Pictures taken with 1D Mark II, 500/4 and 1.4x. Please tell me what you think!


Common Chaffinch, female:
http://www.andersostberg.com/fotogalleri/albums/SmallBirds/JH5Q5733_Bofink.jpg


Yellowhammer:
http://www.andersostberg.com/fotogalleri/albums/SmallBirds/JH5Q5714_Gulsparv.jpg


Eurasian Bullfinch:
http://www.andersostberg.com/fotogalleri/albums/SmallBirds/JH5Q5703_Domherre.jpg


Great Tit:
http://www.andersostberg.com/fotogalleri/albums/SmallBirds/JH5Q5693_Talgoxe.jpg


Blackbird, female:
http://www.andersostberg.com/fotogalleri/albums/SmallBirds/JH5Q5691_Koltrast.jpg


Blue Tit:
http://www.andersostberg.com/fotogalleri/albums/SmallBirds/JH5Q5651_Bl%E5mes.jpg

[Alan B]

OH MY GOD !

:cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:

Amazing shots once again

edit to say - That blue tit one is superb :cool: (well they're all superb ;) )

[IanBMW]

Wow I usually fall asleep looking at bird pics, but your are amazing....the sharpness and beautiful bokeh to boot. Very nice.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Amazing stuff!
The bullfinch,. my how the light was cooperating with this pic :)
These are all just wonderfull! I love the blue tit too.

[Maz]

Those are very nice. Nice lens, and photos. I sure wish I had one.

Thanks for sharing.

Maz
http://www.homesteadsforsale.com

[Anders Östberg]

Thanks all for your kind comments, I appreciate it! :)

[stoneylonesome]

Alan took the words right out of my key board
OH MY GOD !

:lol: :lol: :lol:
Those should be in a bird book... fantastic.

[HJMinard]

Fabulous!!! Really quite good ... especially the tits and the bullfinch!

[Steve Parr]

Wow I usually fall asleep looking at bird pics, but your are amazing....the sharpness and beautiful bokeh to boot. Very nice.

What is "bokeh"???

Steve

[HJMinard]

What is "bokeh"???

Steve

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/bokeh.shtml

[sparker1]

Those are remarkable photos. Excellent in every way.

[boomer1959]

:D Wow great detail on all of them. Nicely done :D

[VesselinG]

Not that I'm gonna say something different, but....


OH MY GOD!

[Anders Östberg]

Thanks! Now I'm blushing... :o

:)

[D Boone]

I'll say something different, Holy S@#&! Thats incredible. Now I am gonna have to sell my car to get that lens... Thats insane how much detail you captured. I love the Bullfinch!

[Mills]

Absolutely Amazing Shots! WOW!!

[yason]

WOW!!!

the details, the colors, everything!!!

WOW!!!

[Steve Parr]

http://www.luminous-landscape.com/essays/bokeh.shtml

Interesting stuff. Thanks...

Steve

[RJSorensen]

Very nice indeed . . .

[Alan B]

FAO Anders - Did you take these in RAW or JPEG ?

Or does'nt it matter seeing that your using the Daddy of all Canons ;)

(colour wise that is)

Oh and your shot of the blue tit looks fantastic as my Desktop image :cool: (hope you dont mind :o )

[Anders Östberg]

Thanks!

Alan, I've switched to RAW for all I do, the advantages in terms of exposure and white balance control is just too big too not do this IMHO. I don't shoot masses of pictures so I can take the job of converting.

Re. desktop image - be my guest! :)

[Alan B]

Yeah i'm thinking of doing the same.I'm getting to hate the quality of the colours in jpeg.Even after setting the custum WB.

Took some test shots today in RAW(first time) and the quality were far superier over the jpeg ones.

[Khaja]

Fantastic!!

Khaja

[chrisvw]

All I can say is WOW!!!! Love all the shots.

[Alan B]

Is this the lens you are using

*warning these are life size pics*
The 500 f4 IS L
http://www.tanchung.com/images/canon/lenses/ef500mmf4xuis.jpg

Or is it the 500 f4.5 L
http://www.tanchung.com/images/canon/lenses/ef500mmf45xu.jpg

What beast's :twisted:

[Anders Östberg]

The 500/4 IS.

And... Yup. It's big. :p

[TammieO]

Fabulous photos. I really want one of those. Hmmm, if I save 25U$ every week by brown bagging my lunch, it will only take me 4.2 years to save for it. LOL!

[Maureen Souza]

These are fabulous!!!! I could hang these on my wall and love looking at hem every day. Great shots!

[Anders Östberg]

Just one more... got the female Eurasian Bullfinch today, background not as nice, and as it was quite overcast the quality is not up there with the others. I haven't photographed this bird before though so I'll take it. :)

http://www.andersostberg.com/fotogalleri/albums/SmallBirds/JH5Q5775_DomherreHona.jpg

[PhotosGuy]

What everyone else said!
I was wandering around & stumbled across these, & think they deserve a <bump>. ;)

[Blue Deuce]

Canon should appoint someone to bump this thread on a regular basis. It would be a cheap and effective way to sell a few of the 500 /4's. Outstanding results from Frets skills also.

What junk can I dig up to sell on Ebay this weekend to buy this lens will be going through my mind now.:)

[clivingston]

Two words Outstanding photography !!!

[Grizz]

Very outstanding photography! (3 words) :)

[Anders Östberg]

Thanks guys! :)

[dancinec]

Amazing shots, your lens was well worth the cost. All are great, however, I am partial to the bullfinch.

[Sharpy]

Hi Anders,
Fabulous! The detail you've captured is absolutely stunning. Well done.

[Alan B]

Well worlth "the bump" :D .

Awesome shots :cool: .

[GyRob]

THEY are super shots and show what can be done with the tc on that lens .
Rob.

[Glenn.B]

Anders,
i've just got in from a stressful day of WORK and found your pictures. all i can say is that i agree with al the other replies, there great. they have cheered me up no-end!! ( but also deppressed me as i have this lens and do not get anything like this quality- must keep trying )

I like the blue tit, but my favorite is the blackbird, the detail in the brest feathers is cracking.

second thoughts, i like all of them.:D :D :D

keep up the fantastic posts.

[Gary Fairhead]

These are indeed beautiful images...excellent detail and color...lots of life in these shots. Excellent work!

[Airedale1]

Gorgeous images! Congratulations and thank you for sharing them.

[Dimitri_V]

Thats one heck of a lens Anders.
Enjoy it.

[CyberDyneSystems]

Oh.. I remeber this first time around!

:lol:

It was right around the same time I decied to sell the Sigma and get used Canon 500mm :)

Amazing shots!
And he's only gotten better since.

[Anders Östberg]

Thanks again guys! :)

CDS, in some details I might have improved a little bit in the year that has gone but for the most part I'm disappointingly enough pretty much in the same spot... more gear but the same pictures... I haven't really topped these pictures yet, and someone brought back a two year old ice hockey thread in another forum and I was kind of shocked to see how little I've developed :(

Time to get focussed and concentrate...

[kr88]

Wow, those are some great captures! Good work!

[kr88]

Simly amazing shots...Wow!

[CyberDyneSystems]

I seem to recall some flight shots,. (chickadee's maybe?) that simply blew me away.. but perhaps I'm confused on the dates. I'm sure I['e seen some remarkeable shots at any rate! :)

Thanks again guys! :)

CDS, in some details I might have improved a little bit in the year that has gone but for the most part I'm disappointingly enough pretty much in the same spot... more gear but the same pictures... I haven't really topped these pictures yet, and someone brought back a two year old ice hockey thread in another forum and I was kind of shocked to see how little I've developed :(

Time to get focussed and concentrate...

[reewik]

Very, very well done