The first one confused me. Looking for the idea behind the shot. Of the sunsets I like the first and third one particularly the third. Nothing wrong with the second one, just seemed to lack point. The last two show that you have a flair for composition. The last one was my favorite. Don't be afraid to shoot clichées for awhile.They are useful for acquiring technique. Enjoy!

Great thread.

Thank you so much for the ID and nice comment! There's also a crop of it under "Dragonfly Crop" in case you'd like to have a look. Or not! Thanks again.

Thanks for the nice comments. I was surprised to discover that my Canon 100-400 would do that.

Crop of yesterdays post. It's an improvement.

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I don't know what this is and I don't have much experience with these little guys. But he was there and so was I. Pretty noisy, isn't it? It's not a huge crop, just a little for balance. Have to work on that.

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Thank you sir.

Shucks, guys. One more. :)

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Thanks. He was a willing subject.

Canon 100-400 II, 5DMIII.

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That makes total sense. As the OP of this thread, I'm always happy when, for whatever reason, you guys in the know get caught in a (civil) discussion thread that exposes more rarified techniques and opinions than one usually runs across. It's why I keep coming here. I'll never have such a high degree of expertise, but this helps me push ahead. As to the original point, it's probably time to replace my original 7D (or use it as a second body).

Fascinating. There are respected, successful photographers who question using auto ISO in the first place.

I seem to forget that I've dialed in exposure compensation. I ruined a slew of what would have been some pretty nice pictures of a blue jay splashing and bathing in a shadowy stream because I forgot I'd dialed in EC for a "sunny scape." You'd think that would have taught me always to check, but I still tend to forget.

This is the post I read on B&H
No light meter???
Canon has taken away the light meter on both the top display and in the viewfinder. I have the choice of reverting to the sunny 16 rule or using an external light meter. I've sent email to Canon, if they can't resolve this I'm returning this otherwise awesome camera. On the positive side... Autofocus is incredibly fast and accurate. Color quality is (subjectively) way beyond what the original 7d provided. 10 frames per second! For now I'm back to using my beloved old 7d. FWIW, these comments are about firmware version 1.1.2.

Cool. Thanks. Yes, I downloaded the manual last night. I didn't know that about EC working in manual mode when auto ISO is selected. I didn't think the camera's entire ability to quantify light had been stripped away. But I liked that the EC scale converted into a light meter in manual mode and I figured that's what the person was referring to and wanted to check it out with "y'all". High end or not, this dual purposing struck me as an elegant approach... arguably more so than stuffing another scale into the viewfinder. But all is well, and thanks for the instructive responses. [Aside: this all arose from me trying to decide on the spur of the moment to go around the corner and grab the 7DII while I was waiting for a lens repair -- I quickly went to the B&H website on my phone to see if any of the negative comments seemed concerning. I didn't buy the camera that day, but I was recently impressed with how quiet and quick the shutter was, as heard from other owners of the camera on a recent birding hike.]