I thought I would start a new thread dedicated to our beautiful Birds of Prey and hope you will share all your fabulous pics of them aswell ......
Please feel free to add your pics
I will kick it off with one of my regulars...Jock the Sprawk
(Pardon the Scottish Accent)
More experimentation... put the 1.4 TC on the big lens for the 1st time, so was shooting at 1120mm f10, and set the maximum ISO to 8000, and for this was at 1/3200. I think it's cleaned up very nicely using Lightroom Classic denoise set to 40. (That reminds me, I've still to set up the post processing thread as I experiment my way through!)
It has turned out nice! Funnily enough I had my Kenko 1.4 converter on yesterday, in between the RF/EF adapter and my Canon 70-300L. They too turned out pretty well. They were shots of a Stonechat - I will try to post them tomorrow ...
Very professional PB photo looks great
Beauty!
What a cracking great shot PB.
That's a great photo PB. I have not had particularly good results with converters in the past and don't have one at the moment, may be time to try again...
That's a lovely clean shot PB, I use Topaz Denoise to clean many of mine up :the
I use one of this one Snappy. As good as any I think, and much cheaper than Canon's own. Goes between the converter and the lens ...
I use Topaz Denoise too. Effective bit of kit ...
I think this bird is either ill, injured, old or perhaps too cold to bother flying too far. I was near to freezing this morning when I photographed this Kestrel in a recreation field we pass through on our morning walk.
It made no effort to fly off. I was able to approach it, slowly, and walk around it to take a frontal shot. It kept its beady eye on my, but stayed put, provided I didn't come too close.
I saw a dog walker making his was toward us. He was staying close to the hedgerow in which sat this Kestrel. I reckoned he was a rude git. He simply glared at the Memsahib when she said hello to him as we passed him in the attached, small car park.
He could see me photographing the Kestrel. He could see the Kestrel. The bird was about 30 feet from me, and about 15 feet up in the branches overhanging the park.
Did the git take a slight 10 foot detour to pass behind me. He had three football pitches worth of park to do so.
Oh no. He just kept on walking straight, a route that took him under the Kestrel - which flew off seconds after I snapped this next shot.
I got one more shot in as it began to take wing.
90% luck, 5% field craft, 5% camera skills.