March 2025 Canon R Photo Sharing Thread New month! Come share and enjoy!

IvorHooper · Mar 14, 2025

Just returned from 3 weeks in Kenya, where I used my new Canon R6m2 and 100-500 lens. Just switched from M43 before i left.

Turns out it was a great combo...perfect zoom range.

Here's a few of the many animals i got to photograph

Angola Colubus

African Sacred Ibis

Black-winged Stilts

Blue-capped Cordonbleu

Cheetah

Elephant

Giraffe

Grasshopper Buzzard

Northern Red-billed Hornbill

Superb Starling

Tawny Eagle

Water Thick-knee

Zeee · Mar 14, 2025

IvorHooper said:
Just returned from 3 weeks in Kenya, where I used my new Canon R6m2 and 100-500 lens. Just switched from M43 before i left.

Nice shots. I really like that combo and the 1.4 TC compliments it.

IvorHooper said:
Turns out it was a great combo...perfect zoom range.

Here's a few of the many animals i got to photograph

Angola Colubus

African Sacred Ibis

Black-winged Stilts

Blue-capped Cordonbleu

Cheetah

Elephant

Giraffe

Grasshopper Buzzard

Northern Red-billed Hornbill

Superb Starling

Tawny Eagle

Water Thick-knee

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I roll with pleasing colour

Zeee · Mar 14, 2025

Dom Luis I Bridge, Porto, Portugal

Porto Cathedral which is across the street the street from where we stayed and a 3 minute walk to the bridge.

One of our landmarks for getting around.

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I roll with pleasing colour

StrugglingforLight · Mar 14, 2025

Zeee said:
Dom Luis I Bridge, Porto, Portugal

Porto Cathedral which is across the street the street from where we stayed and a 3 minute walk to the bridge.

One of our landmarks for getting around.

Those high ISO shots came out great. But why such a fast shutter speed (1/1250) in the Cathedral?

Zeee · Mar 14, 2025

StrugglingforLight said:
Zeee said:

Dom Luis I Bridge, Porto, Portugal

Porto Cathedral which is across the street the street from where we stayed and a 3 minute walk to the bridge.

One of our landmarks for getting around.

Click to expand...

Those high ISO shots came out great. But why such a fast shutter speed (1/1250) in the Cathedral?

I was wondering if someone would ask. I was shooting outdoors and forgot to adjust when we went in. I could have been slower even outdoors. I had a brain fart.

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I roll with pleasing colour

homebodyMacro · Mar 14, 2025

IvorHooper said:
Just returned from 3 weeks in Kenya, where I used my new Canon R6m2 and 100-500 lens. Just switched from M43 before i left.

Turns out it was a great combo...perfect zoom range.

Here's a few of the many animals i got to photograph

You mentioned this in the other thread - I was wondering when we'd hear back from you! Awesome shots.

Zeee · Mar 15, 2025

Free Delivery. Cannot guarantee warm :-D

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Zeee · Mar 15, 2025

Zeee said:
StrugglingforLight said:

Zeee said:

Dom Luis I Bridge, Porto, Portugal

Porto Cathedral which is across the street the street from where we stayed and a 3 minute walk to the bridge.

One of our landmarks for getting around.

Click to expand...

Those high ISO shots came out great. But why such a fast shutter speed (1/1250) in the Cathedral?

Click to expand...

I was wondering if someone would ask. I was shooting outdoors and forgot to adjust when we went in. I could have been slower even outdoors. I had a brain fart.

Got to put my Denoise App to the test.

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I roll with pleasing colour

s zombo · Mar 16, 2025

StillCrazyMan · Mar 16, 2025

SteveinLouisville · Mar 16, 2025

Four

Zeee · Mar 16, 2025

s zombo said:

What a place. We loved it. Nice capture with the sun.

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Sittatunga · Mar 17, 2025

Brodsky Trio

Solem Quartet

Larry Rexley · Mar 17, 2025

Adult and baby Great Horned Owls hunkering down in their nest yesterday at Honeymoon Island State park, on the Osprey Trail, right before the storms came through Tampa Bay FL

All shot with R7, RF 100-400mm f5.6-8 lens, Kenko MC5 1.5x teleconverter optics from an EF-mount TC re-mounted into an RF-mount JJC 16mm DG extension tube (so a non-EXIF-reporting TC). Processing in DxO PhotoLab 8, some twigs removed from the baby owl image with Adobe Photoshop

Adult Great Horned Owl at Honeymoon Island. Canon R7, Canon RF 100-400mm f5.6-8, Kenko MC5 1.5x teleconverter optics, 600mm, f11, 1/320s, ISO 3200

Baby Great Horned Owl at Honeymoon Island. Canon R7, Canon RF 100-400mm f5.6-8, Kenko MC5 1.5x teleconverter optics, 600mm, f11, 1/320s, ISO 3200

SteveinLouisville · Mar 18, 2025

Apparently at least one does. Sitting in a tree in Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville KY. Keeping watch over Section 13.

homebodyMacro · Mar 21, 2025

More bees! The violet wood sorrels will die off soon, so I got some more shots. Quite happy with many of these! It was windy and I barely had a single second on any of them - had to shoot with LCD that I could barely see, not get too close and blow the MFD, and fire once I saw autofocus engage (pre-capture helped with reaction time as well as they would be flying away by the time all those assessments could register visually/mentally).

I have been using a custom R5II AF mode - manual, +1 on both of the 2 settings. Seems to work well overall considering animal mode isn't really trained on bugs as far as I know.

Settings: 1/1000 or faster is needed to get sharp 1x+ magnification shots - bees move very quickly. f/7.1 or thereabouts is best to get a reasonable DOF. The ISO is in the 1000-3000 range, which is about as high as I'd like without losing too much detail. Overall these seem pretty optimal given the variable lighting constraint outdoors. I think the results are quite good.

Anyways, as before these are with the R5II + RF 100 macro.

Takeoff shots:

Wing detail

Sneaky

Last one

StillCrazyMan · Mar 22, 2025

Taken this morning.

Digirame · Mar 23, 2025

Here's some spring flowers I took yesterday hand-held. This was focus bracketed and stacked in the camera.

homebodyMacro · Mar 23, 2025

Okay, gonna catch up on my photos here.

Got some nice wisteria shots from a small bloom we had. These are between my back fence and shed, so had to be a bit creative on the framing.

My wife expressed interest in upwards-facing shots with the sky in them for floral pictures. I managed to get a decent workflow going for these ones (which I also used to re-do the roses from the first post in this thread). When the sky is present, I find that the color temperature is far too warm (DPP4 and DxO pretty much match, so it's not DxO-specific), and then generally the exposure needs boosting on the flower, de-boosting highlights is needed, and some tone curve wizardry is needed to get the contrast desired in the brightness range of the flower (and further deboosting sky if needed).

I've been playing with tone curves a lot the last few months after getting DxO - I feel like this is a pretty good result on these wisteria shots.

R5II, I think mostly with 70-200Z, some may be RF 100 macro.