Your R System Images - September 2024

David Berry · Sep 19, 2024

Our most aggressive honeyeater?

If there's an intruder, these territorial nectar-sippers will see it off. They're our grevilleas: be gone!

Not closely related to the mynas of Asia.

Canon EOS R5m2
RF200-800mm F6.3-9 IS USM
800.0 mm
ƒ/9
1/2000 sec
ISO 8000

Canon R5m2 | RF 200–800
800 mm | ƒ/9 | 1/2000s | ISO 8000
30 frames/second | pre-continuous raw | ±7 metres
DxO PR3 | LrC | Ps

Noisy Miner : Manorina melanocephala
South East Queensland, Australia

David Berry · Sep 23, 2024

Shooting a stranded jellyfish at 30 frames per second!

A senior moment indeed! What was I thinking? (Not much: next time just press that Mode button, David!)

After an hour traipsing across Moreton Bay's tidal flats, I gave up trying to photograph our recently returned waders. It was time to track down something that wouldn't fly off; fortunately, I found the perfect prey — a stranded jellyfish!

In my excitement, the R5m2 was left in BIF mode: pre-continuous raw at thirty frames per second. There was no way that this jellyfish was going to escape! Anyway, I needed to take a break and lie down on the beach for a while.

Canon EOS R5m2
RF200-800mm F6.3-9 IS USM
500.0 mm
ƒ/8
1/2500 sec
ISO 1600

Canon R5m2 | RF 200–800 | Skimmer Groundpod with Flexshooter
500 mm | ƒ/8 | 1/2500s | ISO 1600
30 frames/second | pre-continuous raw | ±5.5 metres (background 2 km)
DxO PR4 | LrC

Jelly Blubber : Catostylus mosaicus
Moreton Bay, Brisbane, Australia

StevenAunan · Sep 23, 2024

My wife's car had to go into the shop today, so I dropped it off at 7 a.m. and planned to take a photo walk with the new-to-me EF 17-40L. But I started to experience muscle cramps in my lower back and only got a few shots. I hate getting old, but at least my mind thinks I'm 30 years younger.

Canon EOS R5m2
EF17-40mm f/4L USM
17.0 mm
ƒ/4
1/500 sec
ISO 800

Kamoshika · Sep 24, 2024

Sunset behind Mount Rishiri off the coast of northern Hokkaido.

Canon EOS R6m2
RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
24.0 mm
ƒ/11
1/6 sec
ISO 800

David Berry · Sep 25, 2024

Pied Oystercatcher joins me for breakfast on King Island.

Early this morning the seas parted, and I walked across 'dry land' to King Island in Moreton Bay.

After an hour or so photographing a Striated Heron (more on that little fellow later), I found a shady spot provided by a grove of casuarinas in which a White-breasted Woodswallow was gathering nesting material (more, etc. later).

My hot chocolate and muesli were scarcely finished, when this dapper oystercatcher wandered past, almost begging to have its portrait taken. I obliged.

The strange background colours are provided courtesy of Moreton Bay's sands – red on the mainland and cream from the huge sand islands separating the bay from the Coral Sea. The lens was pointed slightly down so that the tidal flats fifty metres away – not the marina at five kilometres – formed the background.

As always with pied birds my challenge, on the island and 'in post', was to retain feather detail at both ends of the histogram.

Pied Oystercatcher : Catostylus mosaicus

Canon EOS R5m2
RF200-800mm F6.3-9 IS USM
500.0 mm
ƒ/8
1/2500 sec
ISO 2500

Pied Oystercatcher : Haematopus longirostris
King Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland, AU

Only RF · Sep 25, 2024

David Berry said:
Pied Oystercatcher joins me for breakfast on King Island.

Early this morning the seas parted, and I walked across 'dry land' to King Island in Moreton Bay.

After an hour or so photographing a Striated Heron (more on that little fellow later), I found a shady spot provided by a grove of casuarinas in which a White-breasted Woodswallow was gathering nesting material (more, etc. later).

My hot chocolate and muesli were scarcely finished, when this dapper oystercatcher wandered past, almost begging to have its portrait taken. I obliged.

The strange background colours are provided courtesy of Moreton Bay's sands – red on the mainland and cream from the huge sand islands separating the bay from the Coral Sea. The lens was pointed slightly down so that the tidal flats fifty metres away – not the marina at five kilometres – formed the background.

As always with pied birds my challenge, on the island and 'in post', was to retain feather detail at both ends of the histogram.

View attachment 31739

Canon R5m2 | RF 200–800
500 mm | ƒ/8 | 1/2500s | ISO 2500
30 frames/second | pre-continuous raw | ±7.5 metres
DxO PR4 | LrC

Pied Oystercatcher : Haematopus longirostris
King Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland, AU

Nice capture. I don't have that one yet.

BobU · Sep 26, 2024

My favorite shot from a Bertah band shoot two weeks ago. Also one of my first uses of Denoise. Shot at 12800 ISO. Results pleased me.

BobU · Sep 26, 2024

OK, got a question: Color temp here is off from my color managed monitor. I double checked and have all the Firefox hidden settings to respect color space and it tests working. So what might be the issue where the color shifts uploading here? Of course, could be my image, but I exported in sRGB from Lightroom and should be what I expect to see.

Would love to solve that one.

I'll look at this thread in another browser just to see,

BobU · Sep 26, 2024

VERY interesting. it looks right in Edge!!! Got some sleuthing to do...

UPDATE: Got it. Seems I was forcing a windows version sRGB ICC. Deleted that key and good to go. Glad I posted here tonight

If interested, the key is : gfx.color_management.display_profile It needs to be blank it appears.

Light of morning update: It gets even odder. For images to match desktop lLightroom, the rest of the browser is subdued and fails one vcolor management test. Might be worth its own topic for Browser Color Management.

David Berry · Sep 26, 2024

Break o' Day Stalker…

Canon EOS R5m2
RF200-800mm F6.3-9 IS USM
800.0 mm
ƒ/9
1/2000 sec
ISO 1600

Striated Heron : Butorides striata
Wellington Point, Moreton Bay, Queensland, AU

Before heading out across the tidal flats, I scanned the intertidal area for birdlife: gulls (of course), herons, ibises and a few (just a very few) of our migratory shorebirds. With the binoculars stowed for later, I headed for the seagrass patch which was not yet 'dry'. This was the area frequented by the herons.

A Striated Heron flew in, landed around twenty metres from me and, hunching up in its kind's trademark stalk mode, began its search in the golden dawn light for a fresh morsel to devour.

Hali · Sep 26, 2024

David Berry said:
Break o' Day Stalker…

View attachment 31762

Striated Heron : Butorides striata
Wellington Point, Moreton Bay, Queensland, AU

Before heading out across the tidal flats, I scanned the intertidal area for birdlife: gulls (of course), herons, ibises and a few (just a very few) of our migratory shorebirds. With the binoculars stowed for later, I headed for the seagrass patch which was not yet 'dry'. This was the area frequented by the herons.

A Striated Heron flew in, landed around twenty metres from me and, hunching up in its kind's trademark stalk mode, began its search in the golden dawn light for a fresh morsel to devour.

Beautiful image, David!

PKM-UK · Sep 27, 2024

We're back! A fun, and - considering the dire weather currently hitting the UK - remarkably dry trip with 4,000+ raw files (plus iPhone shots and GoPro footage) to work through - a few images will appear here in due course.

In the meantime, with our thanks for all of the contributions and comments in our absence - images from a recent-ish visit to Chester Zoo, Cheshire, England.

(Shot raw and processed with: DxO PL Elite, Adobe LrC/ PS + Tony Kuyper Panels and Topaz Labs PAI. Compilations feature R7 - Karen and R5 - Phil).

Sadly, we’re in the middle of a whole bunch of ‘real life stuff’ so our availability to provide feedback is sorely lacking (sorry!). Normal service will resume shortly...

Phil and Karen

1. Incoming Inka Alert...

Canon EOS R5
RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
200.0 mm
ƒ/3.2
1/1000 sec
ISO 500

2. We can see you...

Canon EOS R5
RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
124.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/800 sec
ISO 4000

3. Morning...

Canon EOS R5
RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
70.0 mm
ƒ/3.2
1/500 sec
ISO 4000

4. Go on - admit it, you're pleased to see us...

Canon EOS R5
RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
177.0 mm
ƒ/5
1/500 sec
ISO 160

5. Something's looking a bit fishy here...

Canon EOS R5
RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
158.0 mm
ƒ/2.8
1/500 sec
ISO 6400

6. What can you see...

Canon EOS R5
RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
182.0 mm
ƒ/3.2
1/1000 sec
ISO 100

Only RF · Sep 27, 2024

PKM-UK said:
We're back! A fun, and - considering the dire weather currently hitting the UK - remarkably dry trip with 4,000+ raw files (plus iPhone shots and GoPro footage) to work through - a few images will appear here in due course.

In the meantime, with our thanks for all of the contributions and comments in our absence - images from a recent-ish visit to Chester Zoo, Cheshire, England.

(Shot raw and processed with: DxO PL Elite, Adobe LrC/ PS + Tony Kuyper Panels and Topaz Labs PAI. Compilations feature R7 - Karen and R5 - Phil).

Sadly, we’re in the middle of a whole bunch of ‘real life stuff’ so our availability to provide feedback is sorely lacking (sorry!). Normal service will resume shortly...

Phil and Karen

1. Incoming Inka Alert...

View attachment 31769

2. We can see you...

View attachment 31770

3. Morning...

View attachment 31771

4. Go on - admit it, you're pleased to see us...

View attachment 31772

5. Something's looking a bit fishy here...

View attachment 31773

6. What can you see...

View attachment 31774

Another great set.

PKM-UK · Sep 27, 2024

Only RF said:
Another great set.

Hi Only RF,

Cheers - very much appreciated!

P&K

AOC · Saturday at 2:41 PM

Visited the Banff area of Canada the past week and a half on a photo based trip. Here is a lakeside image captured of Lake Moraine with a little Alpine Glow at sunrise.

LakeMoraineatlakeshoresunrisev3cropfinalhighlightsSMALL.jpg

Canon EOS R5m2
RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM
20.0 mm
ƒ/11
1/20 sec
ISO 1250

MikeZ · Saturday at 5:18 PM

Great photo and love the reflection.

Only RF · Sunday at 8:49 PM

Sept is almost up. Just a few basic snaps of injured ambassadors that will never be released from this non profit facility. There was an open house the last few days. They do good work there. I'll submit a few prints for their February auction.

Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre

Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre rehabilitates injured, sick and orphaned wildlife in Manitoba, Canada. Rescue. Rehabilitate. Release.

wildlifehaven.ca

Canon EOS R6m2
RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
500.0 mm
ƒ/7.1
1/3200 sec
ISO 1250

This one was through a fence.

Canon EOS R6m2
RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
500.0 mm
ƒ/7.1
1/1600 sec
ISO 160

AOC · Monday at 12:52 AM

This image was captured at Sunrise at 2 Jack Lake in Banff National Park in Canada 9.21.24

Canon EOS R5m2
RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM
24.0 mm
ƒ/18
1/4 sec
ISO 100

PKM-UK · Monday at 6:48 AM

AOC said:
Visited the Banff area of Canada the past week and a half on a photo based trip. Here is a lakeside image captured of Lake Moraine with a little Alpine Glow at sunrise.

View attachment 31793

Hi Art,

An exhilarating composition, beautifully captured.

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

PKM-UK · Monday at 6:49 AM

Only RF said:
Sept is almost up. Just a few basic snaps of injured ambassadors that will never be released from this non profit facility. There was an open house the last few days. They do good work there. I'll submit a few prints for their February auction.

Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre

Wildlife Haven Rehabilitation Centre rehabilitates injured, sick and orphaned wildlife in Manitoba, Canada. Rescue. Rehabilitate. Release.

wildlifehaven.ca

View attachment 31797

This one was through a fence.
View attachment 31798

Hi Only RF,

Great shots for a great cause.

Well done - and thank you for sharing...

P&K

PKM-UK · Monday at 6:52 AM

AOC said:
This image was captured at Sunrise at 2 Jack Lake in Banff National Park in Canada 9.21.24View attachment 31809

Hi Art,

A mesmeric image - the perfect blend of ingredients, well envisaged and superbly captured.

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

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