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Gman58 said:
Mike, just a suggestion on #7. You could remove those 2 bright areas of bokeh and lighten the face of the duck just a bit. Then I'd hang it on the wall.

Cheers,

Gary
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Thanks Gary, Maybe but that goes against my desire to maintain the accuracy of the scene even if it could look better. Its something I struggle with.
 
22codfish said:
When not at ∞ and using f4.5, the DOF must be Nil for such a large lens. Some shots across your field of vision and some at ¾. I'd waste a lot more than 250 shots with my lighter K-5 and DA*300 mm. Great shots! Also points to improved K-1 auto-focus?
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Perhaps better but not better enough than the K-5 IMO, I suppose I'm saying its not night and day.
22codfish said:
Any post-shot work to sharpen? Red-tailed hawk and Canada's pooping in mid-flight are v, good.
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Yes I sharpen after resizing, I also don't use Bicubic Sharper when resizing as it increases and creates artifacts that my own sharpening typically manages to avoid.
22codfish said:
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Great photos. Very expressive animals, in action. Sharp and well exposed.

The eagle looks similar to the European Snake Eagle (Circaetus gallicus). Do you know what species it is?

Cheers - Klaus
 
Nicols said:
Great photos. Very expressive animals, in action. Sharp and well exposed.

The eagle looks similar to the European Snake Eagle (Circaetus gallicus). Do you know what species it is?

Cheers - Klaus
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Well its not an eagle, its very common around here though, its a Red Tailed Hawk
 
MightyMike said:
Well its not an eagle, its very common around here though, its a Red Tailed Hawk
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Interesting. Yes, I see, it has a red tail.

That is what the european snake eagle looks like. A shot from 2010, close to Murcia, in the southeast of Spain. During the last years I have not seen them around here any more. Too many bikers in the area. This species makes it's nest on pine trees. In winter it migrates to Africa.



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Nice work Mike; you show that BIF is possible with Pentax and good user skill.

Dale
MightyMike said:
These were shot with the K-1, Sigma 500mm F4.5 and Sigma 1.4x TC. Now I didn't go out intending to capture action, I hadn't setup the camera ideally and shooting 700mm on FF at close range with fast moving subjects makes it very hard to keep the center point on the subject so I deleted plenty(hundreds) of bad photos. Here are the few that came out.

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Nicols said:
MightyMike said:
Well its not an eagle, its very common around here though, its a Red Tailed Hawk
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Nicols said:
Interesting. Yes, I see, it has a red tail.

That is what the european snake eagle looks like. A shot from 2010, close to Murcia, in the southeast of Spain. During the last years I have not seen them around here any more. Too many bikers in the area. This species makes it's nest on pine trees. In winter it migrates to Africa.

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I cannot really see the similarity.

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Nice shot, I shot some red kites last time I was in Wales

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Nicols said:
MightyMike said:
Well its not an eagle, its very common around here though, its a Red Tailed Hawk
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Interesting. Yes, I see, it has a red tail.

That is what the european snake eagle looks like. A shot from 2010, close to Murcia, in the southeast of Spain. During the last years I have not seen them around here any more. Too many bikers in the area. This species makes it's nest on pine trees. In winter it migrates to Africa.

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Roland Karlsson said:
Nicols said:
MightyMike said:
Well its not an eagle, its very common around here though, its a Red Tailed Hawk
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Roland Karlsson said:
Interesting. Yes, I see, it has a red tail.

That is what the european snake eagle looks like. A shot from 2010, close to Murcia, in the southeast of Spain. During the last years I have not seen them around here any more. Too many bikers in the area. This species makes it's nest on pine trees. In winter it migrates to Africa.

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I cannot really see the similarity.

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Dark head, patterned under-wing and similar shape, It doesn't have to look the same to be similar

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Roland Karlsson said:
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That duck that just have landed is priceless.

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Thanks Roland

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Yes, it is less similar then I thought. I didn't look the photos before replying. Just saw the dark head and neck, and the dotted lines on the wings. But, of course, there are a lot of differences.

Cheers - Klaus
 
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Very nice series Mike

David
 
Excellent shooting Mike, most impressive!
 
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