stanj wrote:
What you get when you mix surreally hot and humid air, sprinkle some California wildfires, and add a setting yellow ball into the mix.
Shot a 7-bracket AEB 1.3 stops apart, then in LR took the brightest & darkest, and merged them. To my amazement everything lined up perfectly, something that I attribute to the IS (RF24-105L) and fast frame rate.
No one of mine but I thought I'd have some fun with the rest of you. Imaging Resource downloads. I have been dying to try an R5 RAW file using LR. Adobe Colour. I just used Auto and tweaked the exposure a bit. Oh man. I can hardly wait.
A couple more pictures from yesterday evening's initial test photos. Nothing spectacular, but testing/feeling out the way the camera operates. I'm finding that at high ISO, it's fairly similar to my 5D4 - that is, it takes some extra work at 12,800 ISO to get reasonable (to me, but certainly not exceptional) results.
Incidentally, LR now has the ability to read R5 (and probably R6) files - new update came overnight.
First shot, the male cardinal, is from the same series as my initial shot, but developed in LR instead of DPP. I haven't had a chance to tweak things much.
Second shot, same cardinal but from a different set of shots. ISO 5000, it looks like I was able to pull some interesting feather detail out of the image despite having to push the noise down more. I think it's pretty usable. Cropped, but not to 100%.
Third shot, Blue Jay at the feeder, again, a little higher ISO (4000), but the detail in the eye was pretty good.
Fourth shot, a young blue jay on the ground. I probably needed to work this one a bit more, as it seems dull in comparison. Definitely not in the best of light. Still, I think the detail shows through.
I plan to get out this afternoon with the 100-400 II and visit the park near the Chickamauga dam - there are usually a ton of Great Blue Heron there, fishing on the tail side of the dam. It'll be interesting to see how the animal eye focus tracks them.
