Your R System Images - June 2023

[PKM-UK]

Haven’t gotten home yet. Used the in camera raw processing on the following. The first is Desert View Watchtower at Grand Canyon National Park with a well timed (but fast moving) Raven in frame. The second is Horseshoe Bend. As I’m typically limited to travel during family vacation time, I could not be there during sunset, which many try for. But we were blessed with light in the Canyon and distant rain showers creating an amazing scene. Looking forward to getting home and playing with the light and shadows to do the scene justice.

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Another view point along the rim trail. Experimenting with the in camera raw processing again.

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Hi Stephen,

Looks to us like you're having a lot of fun, both with your trip and experimenting with the tech. Three very eye-catching images of stunning places set amid a devastatingly expansive landscape.

(Very interesting in-camera processing too, but we imagine you're aching to get these into your normal processing software).

Thank you for sharing - very inspirational...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona, AZ. Focus was intentional on the foreground flower. An f/2.8 would have been nice here, but the 24-240 is so great for travel.

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Hi Stephen,

A clever piece of composition which has the viewer double-taking, scanning, then finding the subject and finally re-evaluating the entire scene to produce an 'ahhh...' moment. (Well, that's how it struck us!). Nice...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

That's a cracking shot of the dragonfly. I've spent many happy - and frustrating - hours by our garden pond struggling to get a shot that good. I have found that if you're patient and watchful, some of them will fly repeated patterns with pauses in the same spots, so you can line things up. Doesn't always work, and not all species will do it all the time, but it does help. If I'm honest (and don't tell SWMBO) it's one of the main reasons I traded in the RF 600 f11 against the RF100-500, to get the closer focussing.

Here's one from last summer (Procordulia grayi - yellow-spotted dragonfly - NZ native):

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Hi Gareth,

That's a cracking shot - great capture! Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[ACEkin]

From our outing to find and enjoy public art in Providence, RI. There is a new post coming on my site on Thursday with more photographs of public art. This one is Night Flight by Lauren Ys, on A St. (Yes, the name of the street is A.)

 

[LaineeeTravels]

Rented a lens and had some fun last weekend - now to check behind the sofa to see if there's enough hidden change to buy one for myself!

 

[PKM-UK]

From our outing to find and enjoy public art in Providence, RI. There is a new post coming on my site on Thursday with more photographs of public art. This one is Night Flight by Lauren Ys, on A St. (Yes, the name of the street is A.)

Hi Cernal,

Fantastic! A truly wonderful piece of art, but an equally wonderful capture. Love the street name too (is there a 'B' Street?). Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

Rented a lens and had some fun last weekend - now to check behind the sofa to see if there's enough hidden change to buy one for myself!

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Hi Elaine,

A terrific set of shots of beautiful creatures - you've done very well to jump straight in with a rental lens and return with these fine captures. A very difficult choice, but number 4 just takes it as our favourite.

(Good luck with your hunt behind the sofa - we love the RF 100-500! ).

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

A couple of shots from this morning's early wood walk in Hartshill Country Park, Warwickshire, England. Following another torrential rain storm last night (to put it mildly), some pleasing angel beams were manifesting...

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

Phil

 

[ACEkin]

Hi Cernal,

Fantastic! A truly wonderful piece of art, but an equally wonderful capture. Love the street name too (is there a 'B' Street?). Thank you for sharing...

P&K

Thank you. Yes, around the corner is B St.!

 

[PKM-UK]

Thank you. Yes, around the corner is B St.!

Fantastic!

Phil

 

[Photofarmer]

this chap wandered in farm yard sort of a water bird aint no water near us hes lost. He is very elusive used in camera crop. Point of photo r6ii 100/400 with 1.4 extender and in camera crop 1:6 still turned out ok. Its a semi rare or uncommon bird in my parts
Went through photlab6 only really dont know exactly what i was doing

 

[PKM-UK]

this chap wandered in farm yard sort of a water bird aint no water near us hes lost. He is very elusive. Point of photo r6ii 100/400 with 1.4 extender and in camera crop 1:6 still turned out ok
Went through photlab6
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Hi Peter,

A fantastic capture of an unusual (for us!) and beautiful creature. You certainly nailed the shot and the post-production looks equally good to us (we use - and very much like - DxO PhotoLab Elite).

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[Photofarmer]

i need photolab tutorials.....but snuck up on him from behind a bush and thought "gotta fill the frame" hence in camera crop probably wrong method

 

[PKM-UK]

i need photolab tutorials.....but snuck up on him from behind a bush and thought "gotta fill the frame" hence in camera crop probably wrong method

Hi Peter,

DxO have a range of YouTube webinar tutorials (not all are in English!) which can be found by clicking Here.

I also enjoy PhotoJoseph (who does some of the DxO webinars) and his YouTube channel can be found Here.

Phil

 

[Only RF]

Polo anyone

 

[AOC]

Eastern Wood-Pewee

Young White Tail Deer Buck

Red-winged Blackbird

Eastern Meadowlark

Young Buck

Barn Swallow

 

[PKM-UK]

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Hi Only RF,

Terrific actions shots which take the viewer into the heart of the action and leave them wondering - what came next?

(If it were me I'd miss the ball and fall off the horse... ).

Thank you for sharing...

Phil

 

[PKM-UK]

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Eastern Wood-Pewee


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Red-winged Blackbird

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Eastern Meadowlark

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Young Buck

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Barn Swallow

Hi Art,

Another stunning set of captivating captures of wonderful creatures. Very difficult to pick a favourite, but we can't get past #2 (what an absolute cutie!).

Thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[Dean Wilson]

...and to think the next day was Summer Solstice! The morning started off nice and brisk somewhere below freezing with a blanket of snow on the car.
I decided to put the R5 and L-glass away because I wanted see if it's possible to take a good landscape photograph with my EOS R and 24mm f/1.8 Macro.

Crater Lake National Park, June 20, 2023

 

[PKM-UK]

...and to think the next day was Summer Solstice! The morning started off nice and brisk somewhere below freezing with a blanket of snow on the car.
I decided to put the R5 and L-glass away because I wanted see if it's possible to take a good landscape photograph with my EOS R and 24mm f/1.8 Macro.

Crater Lake National Park, June 20, 2023

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Hi Dean,

A breathtakingly majestic scene and a beautifully captured and processed image. Wonderful - thank you for sharing...

P&K

 

[PKM-UK]

While waiting for the Service Centre to tell me my cycle was ready for collection, I did a few re-edits of recent captures taken during our early morning walks in Hartshill Country Park, Warwickshire, England. Thought I'd share some here.

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

Phil

 

[MikeZ]

...and to think the next day was Summer Solstice! The morning started off nice and brisk somewhere below freezing with a blanket of snow on the car.
I decided to put the R5 and L-glass away because I wanted see if it's possible to take a good landscape photograph with my EOS R and 24mm f/1.8 Macro.

Fantastic shot. Did you shoot in B&W or was that achieved through post? Amazing image either way.

 

[Dean Wilson]

Did you shoot in B&W or was that achieved through post?

Post. I viewed the scene mentally in B&W before taking the color shot.

 

[JustUs7]

18 shot panorama at the South Rim of the Grand Canyon. Developed using DPP4. Stitched using Affinity Photo.

And a 14 shot rendition.

 

[ACEkin]

...and to think the next day was Summer Solstice! The morning started off nice and brisk somewhere below freezing with a blanket of snow on the car.
I decided to put the R5 and L-glass away because I wanted see if it's possible to take a good landscape photograph with my EOS R and 24mm f/1.8 Macro.

Crater Lake National Park, June 20, 2023

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Is the camera tilted to the left a little, say about 4 degrees? I ask because I do this very frequently and end up fixing it in Lightroom.

 

[Tom45]

The wreck of the Peter Iredale on the Oregon coast is a popular place to visit. I have been visiting it all my life.

Here's my brother and I in the early 50's. Sorry, film, not Canon RF.

Here's what it looked like when I visited two years ago.

The waves alternately bury and then uncover the wreck. The following were taken this June 2023 with more of the wreck exposed.

The freighter now has a swimming pool.

Being run aground and abandoned to rust away over the decades wasn't enough insult to a fine ship. This dog had to add to it. I didn't see the dog when I took the picture. It was a surprise while reviewing images at home.

 

[Bert-63]

...and to think the next day was Summer Solstice! The morning started off nice and brisk somewhere below freezing with a blanket of snow on the car.
I decided to put the R5 and L-glass away because I wanted see if it's possible to take a good landscape photograph with my EOS R and 24mm f/1.8 Macro.

Crater Lake National Park, June 20, 2023

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We're up above you on Whidbey Island and our summer hasn't even gotten started yet either. I'm happy for the more friendly temperatures but the negative is it almost always comew with really bad lighting or fog.. lol.. Can't win. At least we're not in Texas... I used to live in Corpus Christie and the heat down there is unlike anything you've ever felt. We used to say that it may not be hell, but you can see it from there. The day we left we had endured temps of 109 or higher for 19 days straight... Washington is much better.

 

[Bert-63]

The wreck of the Peter Iredale on the Oregon coast is a popular place to visit. I have been visiting it all my life.

Here's my brother and I in the early 50's. Sorry, film, not Canon RF.

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Here's what it looked like when I visited two years ago.

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The waves alternately bury and then uncover the wreck. The following were taken this June 2023 with more of the wreck exposed.

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The freighter now has a swimming pool.

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Being run aground and abandoned to rust away over the decades wasn't enough insult to a fine ship. This dog had to add to it. I didn't see the dog when I took the picture. It was a surprise while reviewing images at home.

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Hey man - I took it upon myself to give an enlargement and mild clean-up to your image - I split the difference between too much and barely any. If you apply too much AI the people start looking like aliens. I had to take a screenshot and work from there so I was already behind the curve. Keep or delete - your choice.

 

[Dean Wilson]

Is the camera tilted to the left a little, say about 4 degrees?

No I made sure the horizon was level. It is a bit misleading when photographing a landscape where no point on the horizon is level. This is exacerbated with by the uneven crater rim, the round uneven shore line, the non-symmetrical island, heavy composition on one side, and of course shooting at 24mm.

I just checked and using Lightroom's Geometry anything other than "OFF" states: No Upright Correction Found.

Manually changing 0.4 (either direction) looks unlevel to my eye.

 

[ACEkin]

No I made sure the horizon was level. It is a bit misleading when photographing a landscape where no point on the horizon is level. This is exacerbated with by the uneven crater rim, the round uneven shore line, the non-symmetrical island, heavy composition on one side, and of course shooting at 24mm.

I just checked and using Lightroom's Geometry anything other than "OFF" states: No Upright Correction Found.

Manually changing 0.4 (either direction) looks unlevel to my eye.

Different eyes; and mine are not that good as I said. I am glad.