Post your Bird Portraits (2)

Wood Duck drake

Canon EOS R5 • Canon EF 100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM @560mm • 1/500 • f/8 • ISO 1250

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wxjef wrote in post #19490146
Room in here for a birding noob?

This is one of the few images that actually came out good enough to do anything with out of almost 200 images mostly with ai servo mode and h speed drive. Thinking something needs a MFA (micro focus adjustment) snapped today.

Then again I'm fairly new to wildlife and bird photography. I got lucky with this session with a hawk.

Frustrated as I expected a little bit better than mostly rubbish from the 80d and canon 300mm f/4L is, some images looked totally out of focus. Anyway the image hopefully acceptable for this thread

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Looks good, wxjef. You are saying that focus varies from shot to shot. MFA won't help with that. Was this a pretty big crop? The subject needs to be a decent size for the AF to do its job, and it needs to have good contrast.

The 80D is a fine camera. Maybe time to do some controlled tests to figure out why the focus is inconsistent.

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White Ibis.

Canon EOS R7 • Canon RF 100-500mm f/4.5-7.1L IS USM @500mm • 1/500 • f/7.1 • ISO 200

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TheFloridaShooter wrote in post #19489998
Mature Female Great Horned Owl - Photographer in SW Florida USA Camera: Sony a7Rv March 7, 2023

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Nice find, beautiful owl.

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ozulrike wrote in post #19490125
Beautiful! I love the soft background.

Thank you.

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Pigeon.

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Ray.Petri wrote in post #19490205
Pigeon.

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Nice shot Ray, nice and sharp.

Still waiting for the wisdom they promised would be worth getting old for.

Pippan wrote in post #19490206
Nice shot Ray, nice and sharp.

Thanks, Pippan.
This guy is a bit pompous as him and his mate strut around the garden. But quite harmless.

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Ray.Petri wrote in post #19490208
Thanks, Pippan.
This guy is a bit pompous as him and his mate strut around the garden. But quite harmless.

Have you named them Charles and Camilla?

Still waiting for the wisdom they promised would be worth getting old for.

Pippan wrote in post #19490209
Have you named them Charles and Camilla?

Very funny - Ha! Ha! They will be flying out to Oz soon to visit their antipodean empire - even funnier. -)

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Blackbird stretching out.

Canon EOS R7 • Tamron SP 150-600mm F/5-6.3 Di VC USD A011 @250mm • 1/1600 • f/5.6 • ISO 3200

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K9Kirk wrote in post #19490214
Blackbird stretching out.

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I like it - not seen that pose before.

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Some of the finches from the garden.

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