Your Photo of the Week

[Hali]

Chautauqua Park is a popular hiking area for the folks around Boulder. This is a shot of the famous Flat Irons visible throughout the area. This is an focus stacked/stitched image shot bracketed with Canon R5, Canon 300mm lens, f/11, 1/125th sec. exposure, ISO 400. It is made up of 1564 individual Focus Bracketed images processed to yield 175 individual Focus Stacked images, 7 rows x 25 columns 30% overlap in portrait orientation.

The original image is:​

• 3.454 Gaga-pixels
• 38,057 x 90,759 pixels
• 126" x 302" 300 PPI un- cropped image size

This will take you to a virtual tour of the image: https://abbascreationsphotography.com/Flatirons/index.html

This is just fabulous! I took a look at the virtual tour and the detail is just incredible. Do you mind me asking 1. how long it took to shoot 2. I assume you were using a panhead on your tripod? and 3. how long did it take to process?

 

[Tim Mayo]

That's beautiful, Timothy! I love that stare it is giving you and the smooth clean background really emphasizes the great detail in the feathers.

Thanks Hali. They are definitely checking me out! There's a nice grassy meadow in the background that just melts away at this distance. Thankfully no sheep photo bombing this time as they show up as big white blobs!

 

[Hali]

Week 27 A pair of Brown-Hooded parrots trying to figure out who has right of way

• Canon EOS R5
• EF500mm f/4L IS USM
• 500.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 2500

 

[Hali]

Week 28. An Olive-backed Euphonia in flight

• Canon EOS R5
• EF500mm f/4L IS USM
• 500.0 mm
• ƒ/5
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 2000

 

[Tim Mayo]

Week 28. An Olive-backed Euphonia in flight

Cracking shot of a beautiful little bird Hali!

 

[Hali]

Cracking shot of a beautiful little bird Hali!

Thank you so much, Tim!! It was an interesting experience trying to get it!

 

[Shotbycurtin]

Superb capture Hali!

Not been out much as I’ve been busy doing all the jobs I should have done around the house so we can test the housing market. Popped along to Sheffield Park Gardens and took a few on Wednessday.

 

[Tim Mayo]

It's pretty grim here today but thought I'd grab a quick shot of one of our goldfinches in the garden. They are feeding like crazy right now, often about 15 of them waiting for their turn on the feeder.

• Canon EOS R5
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM
• 500.0 mm
• ƒ/7.1
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 320

 

[Rob2563]

I love gold finches Tim definitely one of the prettiest members of the British Finches

 

[Tim Mayo]

I love gold finches Tim definitely one of the prettiest members of the British Finches

They are certainly pretty little birds Rob, we are lucky to have them in the garden. Although they go through the sunflower hearts like there's no tomorrow! But I guess for them there is no tomorrow if they don't eat enough. They had their last brood of the year just a couple of weeks back and appear to still be feeding them.