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25 more eagles with new 1D Mark III

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...your photographs and laughed at me. Excellent!!!
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Fantastic photos. Wish there were more. Some of the best I've seen.
 
Stunning shots a lot of them. I especially liked the composition of the one with the goose and duck in the foreground.

 
Where were you when you took these photos?

maljo
 
I am using now are

C.FnIII-2 Slow
C.FnIII-3 0 (tracking priority)
C.FnIII-4 0 (Main focus point priority)
C.FnIII-5 1 Focus Search Off
C.FnIII-8 2 Enable surrounding Assist points)

An I use center point AF

I think those are the relevant ones
Gene
Gary S said:
Beautiful shots, Gene. Some great lighting too. You'll have to share
your AF settings once you decide which ones seem to be working best
for you. BIF can be similar to sports in some ways. Could be helpful
to people.
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Gene (aka hawkman) - Walk softly and carry a big lens

Please visit my wildlife galleries at:
http://www.pbase.com/gaocus
http://hawkman.smugmug.com/gallery/1414279

 
I find some of your photos not exactly sharp. Is not 1/1600 too slow for eagles in flight? Why do you use such high F numbers?
 
Great that you are getting comfortable with your new rig. The micro adjust is one feature I really wish I had on the Mk2N, but it's not something I'll upgrade for right now. I'm thinking about possibly going for the next offering that comes out, probably later this year or next. It will be interesting to see if any major feature additions are released with the Mk4.

Thanks for posting the images. Really great stuff !

Tim

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Gallery at: http://www.pbase.com/tim32225

 
Either you have never done any birding...or you want a super contrast, weird colors, highly saturated types like the one you're using.
 
I use high F numbers to get the whole bird in focus as much as possible. These are large birds. At f9 the DOF at 700mm at 100 feet is about 2 feet. Their wing span is much more than this. It is always a trade-off - the eagles can make very fast correction maneuvers so 1/1600 sometimes will catch some motion blur in some part of the body. OTOH, a shallower with a shallower DOF and higher shutter speed, part of their body or wings will be OOF.

I try not to oversharpen my images - I think the detail speaks for itself.

Gene
Stepanfo said:
I find some of your photos not exactly sharp. Is not 1/1600 too slow
for eagles in flight? Why do you use such high F numbers?
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Gene (aka hawkman) - Walk softly and carry a big lens

Please visit my wildlife galleries at:
http://www.pbase.com/gaocus
http://hawkman.smugmug.com/gallery/1414279

 
These prove it can be done...great quality
 
I did not view all your pictures - I noticed you used 1/1600 and 1/2500. ALL picures I did not find exactly sharp were shot on 1/1600.
 
Hawkman said:
1/1600 sometimes will catch some motion blur in some part of the
body
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I wouldnt like to use time with which you know you will have some percentage of blurred pictures. I think a bit noisier but unblurred photo is better.
 
Don't these Eagle pics look better than anything you've seen so far from 5DII?
I must say, 1DsIII IQ is super.
 
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