Your R System Images - September 2024

[David Berry]

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

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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

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Noisy Miner : Manorina melanocephala
South East Queensland, Australia​

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[David Berry]

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

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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

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Jelly Blubber : Catostylus mosaicus
Moreton Bay, Brisbane, Australia​

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[StevenAunan]

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]

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]

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.

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

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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

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

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[Only RF]

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

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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

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

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

 

[BobU]

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]

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]

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]

Break o' Day Stalker…

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

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

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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.

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[Hali]

Break o' Day Stalker…

View attachment 31762

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

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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.

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Beautiful image, David!