Your R System Images - May 2023

[Chris Summers]

Went on a photo walk with friends from our local photography club. Downtown Houston is pretty quiet on weekends, the majority of companies downtown are oil and gas, banking and real estate so it's mostly busy on weekdays.

Like a lot of cities they encourage local artists to paint murals on the sides of older buildings.

 

[JustUs7]

• Canon EOS R6m2
• RF100-400mm F5.6-8 IS USM
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/100 sec
• ISO 200

Backyard guest at our little pond. Absolutely huge frog for this area. Must be four or five inches nose to caboose.

 

[Chris Summers]

Memorial Day weekend for our family usually means the first pool party of the summer season but this year it was also a party to celebrate our grandson graduating from high school. On occasions like this I usually set up a "photo booth" for portraits of our kids and grandkids and now great grandkids, the star in these photos was the graduate. I keep it simple enough, a clean white backdrop and a couple of strobes on either side of the camera with soft boxes to keep the light fairly soft and shadow free. I never know if I will shoot one person or a big family group, people come and go as the party goes on. It's all about fun so everyone gets to clown around but these are the kind of portraits they will remember more than serious ones.

So I was going to shoot with my Comet monolight studio strobes I still use from time to time but for the life of me couldn't find the remote triggers to fire the flash as I shot so I just used the tungsten modeling lights and corrected the white balance later in Lightroom. Canon R and the RF 24-105mm worked fine.

 

[Only RF]

Moon at sunset

• Canon EOS R7
• RF100-500mm F4.5-7.1 L IS USM + EXTENDER RF1.4x
• 700.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 800

 

[Tui]

Watching for whales at Kurnell, Sydney yesterday

• Canon EOS R6
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• Canon EOS R6
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 24.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• Canon EOS R6
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 105.0 mm
• ƒ/10
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 320

• Canon EOS R6
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 45.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 100

• Canon EOS R6
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 29.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 1000

• Canon EOS R6
• RF24-105mm F4 L IS USM
• 96.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 1250

 

[Hali]

Exhibition Announcement

I am pleased to announce that one of my photographs (Horseback Riding in Bandon) has been selected for the upcoming "Where Are We Now" exhibition at the North View Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

As a Serious Hobbyist Photographer this is the first for me.


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Congratulations! That's wonderful

 

[Hali]

Watching for whales at Kurnell, Sydney yesterday
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Nice images, I especially love the last one with the reflections of the sky in the puddles.

 

[Hali]

Start of a new project working on frozen flowers. This is the first (and so far only) peony in my garden. It's an interesting learning curve, which would probably be made easier if I'd look up information on doing it on the interwebs. 62 image stack put together in Helicon Focus.

• Canon EOS R5
• RF100mm F2.8 L MACRO IS USM
• 100.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/125 sec
• ISO 200

 

[Only RF]

Exhibition Announcement

I am pleased to announce that one of my photographs (Horseback Riding in Bandon) has been selected for the upcoming "Where Are We Now" exhibition at the North View Gallery in Portland, Oregon.

As a Serious Hobbyist Photographer this is the first for me.


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Congrats. It’s a very nice shot.

 

[Bucolic Old Sir Henry]

Just back from Australia, visiting family and friends for the first time since the lurgy struck. Took the R6 with 14-35 and 70-200, and there was only one place where I really, really wished I'd brought the 100-500 - which will be obvious... ;-)

We started in Brisbane, where you don't have to go to see the animals, they come to you:

• Canon EOS R6
• RF70-200mm F4 L IS USM
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/8
• 1/200 sec
• ISO 100

This little guy (Bush Stone-Curlew, Burhinus graccarius) was in a flower bed behind an ice cream shop on the city's Southbank, undisturbed by what seemed like half the inhabitants of SE Queensland out for a Sunday stroll.

This Kookaburra (Dacelo novaeguineae) was one of a family of three ruling the roost in the garden of our apartment in Burleigh Heads:

• Canon EOS R6
• RF70-200mm F4 L IS USM
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/4.5
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 640

But you don't go to Burleigh Heads for the birds - or perhaps you do... ;-) - you go for the surfing:

• Canon EOS R6
• RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM
• 14.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/250 sec
• ISO 100

The Heads has a perfect point break, warm water and loads of young (and old) keen to exploit them. The skyscrapers on the horizon are Surfers Paradise to the north.

• Canon EOS R6
• RF70-200mm F4 L IS USM
• 200.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/400 sec
• ISO 100

The best that I could do with the 70-200. I was so caught up in trying to capture the action at various settings for frames per second that I neglected to set shutter speed where it should ideally have been. I enhanced detail in LR Classic before doing any other adjustments, and allowed myself a gentle crop. With the 100-500 and 1/1000th+ I reckon you could have counted his nostril hairs...

Then we went south to Sydney:

• Canon EOS R6
• RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM
• 23.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 100

Looking towards the CBD from above Watson's Bay.

• Canon EOS R6
• RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM
• 14.0 mm
• ƒ/9
• 1/320 sec
• ISO 100

Ditto, from the beach at Camp Cove. There's a reason Sydney waterside property is so expensive...

Sydney's Vivid festival of lights started while we were there. They usually put on a fireworks display when we visit, but this year they really did themselves proud...

• Canon EOS R6
• RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM
• 19.0 mm
• ƒ/11
• 1/5 sec
• ISO 3200

This and the two following were from the Lightscape show in the Botanic Gardens. An amazing experience. These were all denoised in LRC before any adjustments. I was guessing exposure, and relying on the R6's IBIS - which I reckon did an amazing job at 1/5th second.

• Canon EOS R6
• RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM
• 14.0 mm
• ƒ/20
• 1/5 sec
• ISO 3200

• Canon EOS R6
• RF14-35mm F4 L IS USM
• 25.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/5 sec
• ISO 3200

At that point the only battery I had with me ran out of charge. The spare was back at the hotel... As they say in NZ, bugger.

And yes, the sun always shines in Australia.