Your R System Images - April 2023

[PKM-UK]

It was fun, macro abstracts were the theme. Now I have a bunch of things I want to buy, including stained glass, colored gels, and of all things, milk crates.

Hi Hali,

I think your images will certainly get others thinking…

A good thing - and part of the rationale for this thread.

Phil

 

[Ferenc MÓGOR]

Just revisited an old photo of mine, actually one of the first shots I took with my new EOS R6 MK1 back in November, 2021 of a Ferrari sports car in the showroom through the window when I bought this camera. Re-processed again from RAW today and here it is. Please enjoy, comments are also more than welcome. Cheers.

P.s. Finally I didn't buy the car, didn't like the color!

Nah, just kidding!

Canon EOS R6 MK1 + RF 24-240mm F4-6.3 IS USM
1/60s (handheld), F10, 24mm, ISO1600

 

[PKM-UK]

Just revisited an old photo of mine, actually one of the first shots I took with my new EOS R6 MK1 back in November, 2021 of a Ferrari sports car in the showroom through the window when I bought this camera. Re-processed again from RAW today and here it is. Please enjoy, comments are also more than welcome. Cheers.

P.s. Finally I didn't buy the car, didn't like the color!

Nah, just kidding!

Canon EOS R6 MK1 + RF 24-240mm F4-6.3 IS USM
1/60s (handheld), F10, 24mm, ISO1600

Hi Ferenc,

Luscious colour, great depth of detail - and sharpness given the low shutter speed (held against the glass?) - and an achingly beautiful ‘model’ posing very provocatively for you. Great control of the sensor melting reds too. Terrific!

P&K

PS. Would love to have this baby rotating on a plinth in our living room (but we’d have to sell the house - and have a big loan - to buy it… ).

 

[Ferenc MÓGOR]

Hi Ferenc,

Luscious colour, great depth of detail - and sharpness given the low shutter speed (held against the glass?) - and an achingly beautiful ‘model’ posing very provocatively for you. Great control of the sensor melting reds too. Terrific!

P&K

PS. Would love to have this baby rotating on a plinth in our living room (but we’d have to sell the house - and have a big loan - to buy it… ).

Thanks Phil, camera was absolutely hand held, no holding against the glass, lens IS and camera IBIS worked fine here. I was also amazed how good reds were handled.

 

[PKM-UK]

Thanks Phil, camera was absolutely hand held, no holding against the glass, lens IS and camera IBIS worked fine here. I was also amazed how good reds were handled.

Hi Ferenc,

Hand-held - wow! - an even better shot then!

Phil

 

[AKVet]

Just revisited an old photo of mine, actually one of the first shots I took with my new EOS R6 MK1 back in November, 2021 of a Ferrari sports car in the showroom through the window when I bought this camera. Re-processed again from RAW today and here it is. Please enjoy, comments are also more than welcome. Cheers.

P.s. Finally I didn't buy the car, didn't like the color!

Nah, just kidding!

Canon EOS R6 MK1 + RF 24-240mm F4-6.3 IS USM
1/60s (handheld), F10, 24mm, ISO1600

Another testimony for that lens (which I just bought yesterday... hehe)!

 

[VanDyck]

As promised (somewhere on the site - possibly not in this thread... ), some images from our recent-ish visit to Snowshill Manor.

(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ Viewpoint and Adobe Lightroom/ Photoshop).

You can learn more about Snowshill Manor and Charles Paget Wade by clicking Here.

Phil and Karen

1. Snowshill Manor, near Broadway in the Cotswolds, Gloucestershire, England, was built c.1550.View attachment 15199

2. It was the home of Charles Paget Wade (1883-1956) - an eccentric and avid collector.
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3. He built up an incredible collection of over 30,000+ ‘things he found interesting’, of which only 30-ish were actually purchased from overseas.
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4. Many famous people visited Snowshill to meet with Mr Wade and see his collection including - J B Priestley, Virginia Woolf, Graham Greene and Queen Mary.
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5. Several years before he died, Mr Wade offered Snowshill to the National Trust as a way of safeguarding the future of the manor and garden and Snowshill has been in the care of the National Trust since 1952.
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Fantatic shots! Thank you for sharing them. I have a thing for old structures from times long past.

 

[Tui]

St James railway station, Sydney

• Canon EOS R6
• RF16mm F2.8 STM
• 16.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/100 sec
• ISO 3200

 

[PKM-UK]

Fantatic shots! Thank you for sharing them. I have a thing for old structures from times long past.

Hi Walter,

Cheers - much appreciated!

We’re very pleased to hear you enjoyed our images - stay tuned, there’ll be more coming as we move forward…

Phil and Karen

 

[PKM-UK]

St James railway station, Sydney
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Hi Tui,

A shot which holds both fascination and romance - the viewer sits at the start of a journey…

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

One from last weekend - taken in Sheringham Park, Norfolk, England - A Marriage Made in the Heavens?

A 'marriage' of a tree line shot and an interesting sky (interesting photographic merits, not likelihood of remaining dry merits - although, in the end, we did!).

I like the effect, but would have preferred it if a hot air balloon with someone dangling beneath it had floated across the scene - I guess you can't always have everything...

(Shot raw and processed using: Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop - including the TK8 Panel and Topaz DeNoise AI/ Studio 2).

Phil

• Canon EOS R5
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 42.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 160

 

[StevenAunan]

Lake Abert, Oregon, along Highway 395.

• Canon EOS R6
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 105.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/5000 sec
• ISO 250

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

Just back from most of a week with family in NZ's capital, Wellington. We took the opportunity to take grandson to a predator-free nature reserve - Zealandia - which has seen an amazing recovery in the local birdlife over the last ten years our more. Here are a couple of Kaka (Nestor meridionalis), posing for the camera:

• Canon EOS R6
• RF70-200mm F4 L IS USM
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/4
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 1250

• Canon EOS R6
• RF70-200mm F4 L IS USM
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/4.5
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 8000

The Zealandia population of these very noisy parrots has been so successful that they're now a common sight around the leafier parts of the city.

The final pic is of a takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri), a nationally endangered species, but they're clearly happy in their Wellington lodgings - tame enough to wander up to picnic tables and demand a feed.

• Canon EOS R6
• RF70-200mm F4 L IS USM
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/4.5
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 100

The reserve also has a population of tuatara, a large lizard which can only thrive where there are no introduced predators - mostly offshore islands. They can be seen on a sunny, wooded bank whenever photographers aren't around.

 

[PKM-UK]

Lake Abert, Oregon, along Highway 395.

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Hi Steven,

That’s quite a sight - the effect is mesmerising and causes the viewer to do a double take, then look closer.

Thank for sharing,

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

Just back from most of a week with family in NZ's capital, Wellington. We took the opportunity to take grandson to a predator-free nature reserve - Zealandia - which has seen an amazing recovery in the local birdlife over the last ten years our more. Here are a couple of Kaka (Nestor meridionalis), posing for the camera:

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The Zealandia population of these very noisy parrots has been so successful that they're now a common sight around the leafier parts of the city.

The final pic is of a takahe (Porphyrio hochstetteri), a nationally endangered species, but they're clearly happy in their Wellington lodgings - tame enough to wander up to picnic tables and demand a feed.

View attachment 15391

The reserve also has a population of tuatara, a large lizard which can only thrive where there are no introduced predators - mostly offshore islands. They can be seen on a sunny, wooded bank whenever photographers aren't around.

Hi Gareth,

Looks like you had plenty of fun capturing these wonderful creatures (those names are interesting and fun in themselves).

Thank you for sharing,

P&P

 

[PKM-UK]

Three images from our visit to Norfolk last weekend - despite the forecast suggesting a good drenching was to be expected, we ended up basking in warm(ish) sunshine eating fish and chips by the sea. Result!

(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ Nik Collection, Adobe Lightroom/ Photoshop and Topaz Labs Studio 2).

Phil and Karen

1. The beach at West Runton - Mean and moody...

• Canon EOS R7
• RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
• 70.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 250

2. Sheringham Park - Drawn ever deeper into the mysterious depths...

• Canon EOS R5
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/5
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 6400

3. Cromer Pier - For those that know of it, the setting for the dramatic climax to the comedy movie 'Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa' (aka 'Alan Partridge')...

• Canon EOS R5
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 250

 

[dgphoto8]

Three images from our visit to Norfolk last weekend - despite the forecast suggesting a good drenching was to be expected, we ended up basking in warm(ish) sunshine eating fish and chips by the sea. Result!

(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ Nik Collection, Adobe Lightroom/ Photoshop and Topaz Labs Studio 2).

Phil and Karen

1. The beach at West Runton - Mean and moody...
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2. Sheringham Park - Drawn ever deeper into the mysterious depths...
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3. Cromer Pier - For those that know of it, the setting for the dramatic climax to the comedy movie 'Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa' (aka 'Alan Partridge')...
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I like the B&W symmetry of the pier

 

[dgphoto8]

This Yellow-rumped warbler was a Spring visitor to our backyard and feeder this weekend. We see them when birding in woods, but we have not seen these warblers come to feeders except during Spring migration.

It was a cloudy day and I used a relatively high ISO of 3200, so I tried the new AI denoising in Lightroom Classic. Overall I like how it is working. I also have DxO PL5 for noise reduction, but having an effective denoise feature in LR simplifies my workflow and, at least for me, quickens it substantially as the processing time is slightly shorter than DxO but there is no "handoff delay" going from DxO back to LR, which for me takes a substantial time for the DxO generated DNG to sync into the LR catalog.

• Canon EOS R5
• RF800mm F11 IS STM
• 800.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 3200

• Canon EOS R5
• RF800mm F11 IS STM
• 800.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 3200

 

[PKM-UK]

I like the B&W symmetry of the pier

Hi Don,

Pleased you like it. When I looked through the EVF to compose the shot I did think ‘hmmm, that’s screaming B&W’.

Phil

 

[PKM-UK]

This Yellow-rumped warbler was a Spring visitor to our backyard and feeder this weekend. We see them when birding in woods, but we have not seen these warblers come to feeders except during Spring migration.

It was a cloudy day and I used a relatively high ISO of 3200, so I tried the new AI denoising in Lightroom Classic. Overall I like how it is working. I also have DxO PL5 for noise reduction, but having an effective denoise feature in LR simplifies my workflow and, at least for me, quickens it substantially as the processing time is slightly shorter than DxO but there is no "handoff delay" going from DxO back to LR, which for me takes a substantial time for the DxO generated DNG to sync into the LR catalog.
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Hi Don,

Great captures of a beautiful creature - terrific fine feather detail - thank you for sharing!

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

A recent shot to round off our April thread images - bluebells just after dawn, Hartshill Country Park, Warwickshire, England.

Phil and Karen

• Canon EOS R5
• RF70-200mm F2.8 L IS USM
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/2.8
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 1250

 

[TonyB]

Took this over the weekend for a 52 Frames weekly photo. Single off-camera flash with a softbox above the setting.

• Canon EOS R5
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 97.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 100

 

[PKM-UK]

*** Your R System Images - April 2023 *** Thread Closed…

A wonderful collection of inspirational R System images this month - posted from people all around the world and viewed by people all around the world - we’ve really enjoyed seeing them. So far the the April thread has had 170 replies and 3k views (Fantastic!). A HUGE ‘thank you’ to all of the contributors and commentators - your talents and time are very much appreciated!!

You can continue to post any comments here, but the May thread is now open for all new images (including any additional April material).

Phil and Karen

Took this over the weekend for a 52 Frames weekly photo. Single off-camera flash with a softbox above the setting.

View attachment 15559

Hi Tony,

A very polished and impressive result - sharp, vibrant and detail rich, with terrific control of light. It immediately captures the viewer‘s attention and draws them in - a glorious reward for your efforts.

Inspirational (in a number of ways... cheers! ). Thank you for sharing…

P&K

 

[ACEkin]

Took this over the weekend for a 52 Frames weekly photo. Single off-camera flash with a softbox above the setting.

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I like the fact that a spare bottle was there for additional enjoyment that also allowed the cork on the bottle kept sealed!

 

[TonyB]

*** Your R System Images - April 2023 *** Thread Closed…

A wonderful collection of inspirational R System images this month - posted from people all around the world and viewed by people all around the world - we’ve really enjoyed seeing them. So far the the April thread has had 170 replies and 3k views (Fantastic!). A HUGE ‘thank you’ to all of the contributors and commentators - your talents and time are very much appreciated!!

You can continue to post any comments here, but the May thread is now open for all new images (including any additional April material).

Phil and Karen

Hi Tony,

A very polished and impressive result - sharp, vibrant and detail rich, with terrific control of light. It immediately captures the viewer‘s attention and draws them in - a glorious reward for your efforts.

Inspirational (in a number of ways... cheers! ). Thank you for sharing…

P&K

Thanks so much. Very much appreciate the feedback.

I like the fact that a spare bottle was there for additional enjoyment that also allowed the cork on the bottle kept sealed!

Always need a backup - LOL! The glass of bourbon was enjoyed during and after editing.