Red-Shouldered Hawk pair (NSFW)
Feb 20, 2022 01:15:34 #
I've never seen Red-Shouldered Hawks before. These two landed in a tree not far from me, unfortunately not quite in full sun. And, well, it is mating season.
Irvine Regional Park, Orange, California, USA
Olympus E-M5 II, M.Zuiko Digital ED 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II
F6.7 @ 300mm, 204 feet distance, manual focus, 9% crop
Irvine Regional Park, Orange, California, USA
Olympus E-M5 II, M.Zuiko Digital ED 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II
F6.7 @ 300mm, 204 feet distance, manual focus, 9% crop
Feb 20, 2022 02:04:38 #
rsworden wrote:
I've never seen Red-Shouldered Hawks before. These two landed in a tree not far from me, unfortunately not quite in full sun. And, well, it is mating season.
Irvine Regional Park, Orange, California, USA
Olympus E-M5 II, M.Zuiko Digital ED 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II
F6.7 @ 300mm, 204 feet distance, manual focus, 9% crop
Irvine Regional Park, Orange, California, USA
Olympus E-M5 II, M.Zuiko Digital ED 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II
F6.7 @ 300mm, 204 feet distance, manual focus, 9% crop
Nice set! Thanx for sharing!
Feb 20, 2022 06:22:01 #
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Feb 20, 2022 13:38:39 #
rsworden wrote:
I've never seen Red-Shouldered Hawks before. These two landed in a tree not far from me, unfortunately not quite in full sun. And, well, it is mating season.
Irvine Regional Park, Orange, California, USA
Olympus E-M5 II, M.Zuiko Digital ED 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II
F6.7 @ 300mm, 204 feet distance, manual focus, 9% crop
Irvine Regional Park, Orange, California, USA
Olympus E-M5 II, M.Zuiko Digital ED 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II
F6.7 @ 300mm, 204 feet distance, manual focus, 9% crop
Beautiful images ❤️❤️🌟❤️❤️
Feb 20, 2022 21:46:44 #
starlifter wrote:
Great capture, though No.2 doesn't seem to be in focus.
You are correct! Thanks for pointing it out - I took a look and learned a few things.
#1 was manual focus, #2 was autofocus and the focus point was off in the sky. See the attached pic from OM Workspace which shows the miss. I thought they were both taken the same way, but over the course of 30 shots I switched a few settings. Looking at them close up, though, the AF shot is pretty good for 200 feet away and heavy crop. I think what we see as "out of focus" is purple/green fringing indicating chromatic aberration in *both* shots, which I've never really dealt with before. Adobe Camera Raw says it's applying the lens' built-in CA profile, but apparently it's not doing a great job of it. And ACR has no profile for *any* Olympus lens, so I'll have to dig into this.
I reprocessed the images and this time I used ACR's Super Resolution, which I often do but had not with these. That made it easier to see the fringing and use ACR's manual Defringe tool. It helped a lot, especially with vertical edges. I think I still see some fringing on horizontal edges but it's much less noticeable zoomed in, and the overall images look better. I'm attaching some before-and-after zooms showing talons and bark detail... way better with Super Resolution and defringing. and not much difference now between the AF and MF shots. Also attaching the reprocessed full shots.
Feb 21, 2022 07:33:27 #
rsworden wrote:
I've never seen Red-Shouldered Hawks before. These two landed in a tree not far from me, unfortunately not quite in full sun. And, well, it is mating season.
Irvine Regional Park, Orange, California, USA
Olympus E-M5 II, M.Zuiko Digital ED 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II
F6.7 @ 300mm, 204 feet distance, manual focus, 9% crop
Irvine Regional Park, Orange, California, USA
Olympus E-M5 II, M.Zuiko Digital ED 75-300mm F4.8-6.7 II
F6.7 @ 300mm, 204 feet distance, manual focus, 9% crop
Excellent images
Feb 21, 2022 11:34:54 #
Feb 21, 2022 11:55:33 #
rsworden wrote:
You are correct! Thanks for pointing it out - I to... (show quote)
Stunning and beautiful
Feb 21, 2022 12:40:29 #
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