-= 7D2 owners unite! Discuss and post photos!

Thanks Lester for taking the time to look at my photos. Here's one from last week. Love the way the egrets are soaring at the rookery down the street.

Charlie Wesley
St. Augustine Beach, FL
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Canon 5D Mk 111, Canon EOS - 7D Mk II, Panasonic Lumix LX 100, Canon Pixma Pro 10 Printer, Sekonic L- 358 incident/ flash meter, Canon EF 24- 105 f/4 IS, Canon EF 70 -200 mm.L f/4, Sigma 180 mm. HSM f/3.5 EX DG APO Macro IF AF, Canon EF 100- 400 mm. F/4.5- 5.6 L IS, Canon EF 500 mm. f/4 L IS, 1.4 TC, 12 & 25 mm. Ext. tubes, Better Beamer, Canon 580 EX II flash

OK Pondrader, I've broken my promise of no more foxes but this one needed to go out and poop-

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Thanks Robert. Love you're work. Keep it coming...
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Charlie Wesley
St. Augustine, Florida

MedicineMan4040 wrote in post #17947432
OK Pondrader, I've broken my promise of no more foxes but this one needed to go out and poop-

IMAGE LINK: https://flic.kr/p/EHDT​ex Tranquility Base by MedicineMan4040, on Flickr

Don't use the circular brush tool to blur, or to erase the top layer, it's too clumsy... Clear cut the bird from the background, make it a separate layer, apply blur to the lower image and drop the bird back on top...

Not a 7Dii post per se, but since I post here mostly and have friends here, wanted to let everyone know that Google's entire Nik editing software is now free for download. It's for real, I downloaded it.

Here is the link...

https://www.google.com​/nikcollection/

sidknee wrote in post #17947353
Every Canon I've owned has needed a bit of +EC and my 7DII is no exception to that, in fact most of the time my 7DII is set to +2/3 EC. I'd be surprised if the one you have is very different.
Of course, how the camera behaves depends a lot on how you operate it. If you point it at predominantly light stuff it will try to underexpose and the reverse is true if you point it at mostly dark stuff. Check you EC settings and adjust to taste.

For example, both these are jpegs straight from camera, both are at +2/3 EC, manual with auto ISO , no blown white neck feathers on the first one, no recoverable detail in the whites of the neck in the second. Exact same subject just different backgrounds

Archibald wrote in post #17947388
Whether you blow the highlights or not will depend on the brightness range of the scene you are capturing. If the scene has high contrast, some of the highlights will blow. This may matter, or may not matter. If you are shooting a bird backlit by a white sky, the blown sky might not matter. But if the subject is a white bird against a darker background, you will want to reduce expose to retain detail in the bird.

If the scene is drab and all parts have about the same brightness, nothing should blow out, and in fact you might want to increase the exposure ("expose to the right") for best results.

No doubt cameras will vary a bit in exposure, but I doubt by much. If low contrast scenes look OK, then your body is probably fine.

Will try EC tomorrow and check it out, thanks guys!

shooz wrote in post #17947576
Not a 7Dii post per se, but since I post here mostly and have friends here, wanted to let everyone know that Google's entire Nik editing software is now free for download. It's for real, I downloaded it.

Here is the link...

https://www.google.com​/nikcollection/

Shooz,
Am I missing something, I only saw free for the 15 day trial?

If you go to the link I posted, and click at the top "learn more', it states that they are now offering it for free, and that anyone who purchased it in 2016 will receive a refund.

There is, however, speculation that this signals the end of Nik (no more upgrades or support), but it should work fine for now anyway ?

Here is a thread about it on POTN ... https://photography-on-the.net …/showthread.php​?t=1455891

Huge thumbs up for NIK. I say hop on the free version and play. I was an early adopter long ago and paid I think $150 for the collection.

Although I owned Nik Dfine noise reduction and used it with all my images never bothered to buy the other plug ins and it is now free I downloaded it with my LR.
And here I played for 1 image lol just for fun.

Took my boys out for a run at the river today...

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While out there, I thought I'd get a shot of some birds...

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Also...

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Thanks for the advice STIC.
1. how would you cut out the bird?
2. how do you make the cut out bird a separate layer?
Just an amateur wanting to advance the art