Catching up with some flying friends
p.1 #1Catching up with some flying friends
Bugs and Birds are the theme for the day I guess. Been lax in sharing lately, having too much fun hiking around. Processing is a drag, heh heh.
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/7.1 600.0 mm 1/2500 iso400
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Got sick of me and bailed, I thought the side profile was interesting.
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/7.1 600.0 mm 1/2500 iso500
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Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/7.1 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso400
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Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/7.1 200.0 mm 1/2000 iso1600
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Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso640
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An impressionistic take-off
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 368.0 mm 1/2000 iso2500
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A prize?
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso1000
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Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso640
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Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso640
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Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso1250
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Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 376.0 mm 1/2500 iso1250
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Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/7.1 600.0 mm 1/2500 iso400
Got sick of me and bailed, I thought the side profile was interesting.
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/7.1 600.0 mm 1/2500 iso500
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/7.1 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso400
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/7.1 200.0 mm 1/2000 iso1600
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso640
An impressionistic take-off
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 368.0 mm 1/2000 iso2500
A prize?
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso1000
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso640
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso640
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 600.0 mm 1/2000 iso1250
Sony ILCE-7RM5 FE 200-600mm F5.6-6.3 G OSS ƒ/8.0 376.0 mm 1/2500 iso1250
Dec 05, 2025 at 11:06 AM
p.1 #2Catching up with some flying friends
All beauties Eric. My favorites are # 2,5,7 & 10,11. So basically I like them all 
John
John
Dec 05, 2025 at 02:18 PM
p.1 #4Catching up with some flying friends
johnohio wrote:
All beauties Eric. My favorites are # 2,5,7 & 10,11. So basically I like them all
John
Thanks John, appreciate the kind comments and your pick's, all of them, heh.
Eric
All beauties Eric. My favorites are # 2,5,7 & 10,11. So basically I like them all
John
Thanks John, appreciate the kind comments and your pick's, all of them, heh.
Eric
Dec 08, 2025 at 02:04 PM
p.1 #5Catching up with some flying friends
These make ne long for spring! Great set and wonderful looking butterflies in flight , not easily done.
Birdie
Birdie
Dec 09, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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p.1 #6Catching up with some flying friends
Good looking set Eric with the first two standouts
Morris
Morris
Dec 09, 2025 at 11:16 PM
p.1 #7Catching up with some flying friends
birdied wrote:
These make ne long for spring! Great set and wonderful looking butterflies in flight , not easily done.
Birdie
Thanks Birdie! Our season's kinda start stop start around here, and vestiges of summer can bounce back in a mild fall to give some extra opportunities. That, and my ridiculously slow 🐌 post processing brings a little summer forward too,
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Eric
These make ne long for spring! Great set and wonderful looking butterflies in flight , not easily done.
Birdie
Thanks Birdie! Our season's kinda start stop start around here, and vestiges of summer can bounce back in a mild fall to give some extra opportunities. That, and my ridiculously slow 🐌 post processing brings a little summer forward too,
.Eric
Dec 12, 2025 at 08:01 AM
p.1 #8Catching up with some flying friends
Wow what a set buddy! Loving the Woodies for sure, really dynamic.
#6 is a wicked capture!
#1 and #2 with little bugs hiding below is fun, great IF on #2!!
Looks like you weren't rusty and your processing is worth the effort
You sound like my good friend John about processing but he is getting now to enjoy it ..... I think
Karl
#6 is a wicked capture!
#1 and #2 with little bugs hiding below is fun, great IF on #2!!
Looks like you weren't rusty and your processing is worth the effort
You sound like my good friend John about processing but he is getting now to enjoy it ..... I think Karl
Dec 12, 2025 at 09:05 AM
p.1 #10Catching up with some flying friends
Karl Witt wrote:
Wow what a set buddy! Loving the Woodies for sure, really dynamic.
#6 is a wicked capture!
#1 and #2 with little bugs hiding below is fun, great IF on #2!!
Looks like you weren't rusty and your processing is worth the effort You sound like my good friend John about processing but he is getting now to enjoy it ..... I think
Karl
Hi Karl, thanks for the specific's and kind comments.
Yeah, I have a love/hate thing going with post processing. I love working with a good shot where I see in my mind where I want to go with it, and it all works out. Fun stuff. But I swear I don't know how some people shoot those 30FPS sequences and cull it down from hundreds of identical looking shots to get that one shot that is fractionally better or positioned just right. I'd go mad. I'm lucky to get through a couple hundred shots total from a full day of shooting, never mind hundreds from a couple of bursts!!!
What I've started doing lately is using Sony's IEDT Viewer to preview the RAW's after I dump them to my PC, and I do a high-level culling from there and delete anything with missed focus or poor framing. Then I open small batches of 10 or 20 RAWS into Adobe Camera RAW, if all exposed similarly, I'll do a select all then apply similar tweaks to the whole batch, and fix any outliers individually, then cull some more and delete the extra "safety shots" and only keeping the best that responded well to tweaking, and pull those up into Photoshop directly from ACR to do the final edits and save into other formats from there. With Topaz avail as a PS plug in, saving time from hopping out of PS totally to work on it.
Doing it this way has helped "some" with my hate for doing PP... but I'd still rather be out in nature taking pic's. Probably because I'm in IT for a living, and PC time reminds me of work .
Thanks again,
Eric
Wow what a set buddy! Loving the Woodies for sure, really dynamic.
#6 is a wicked capture!
#1 and #2 with little bugs hiding below is fun, great IF on #2!!
Looks like you weren't rusty and your processing is worth the effort
You sound like my good friend John about processing but he is getting now to enjoy it ..... I think Karl
Hi Karl, thanks for the specific's and kind comments.
Yeah, I have a love/hate thing going with post processing. I love working with a good shot where I see in my mind where I want to go with it, and it all works out. Fun stuff. But I swear I don't know how some people shoot those 30FPS sequences and cull it down from hundreds of identical looking shots to get that one shot that is fractionally better or positioned just right. I'd go mad. I'm lucky to get through a couple hundred shots total from a full day of shooting, never mind hundreds from a couple of bursts!!!
What I've started doing lately is using Sony's IEDT Viewer to preview the RAW's after I dump them to my PC, and I do a high-level culling from there and delete anything with missed focus or poor framing. Then I open small batches of 10 or 20 RAWS into Adobe Camera RAW, if all exposed similarly, I'll do a select all then apply similar tweaks to the whole batch, and fix any outliers individually, then cull some more and delete the extra "safety shots" and only keeping the best that responded well to tweaking, and pull those up into Photoshop directly from ACR to do the final edits and save into other formats from there. With Topaz avail as a PS plug in, saving time from hopping out of PS totally to work on it.
Doing it this way has helped "some" with my hate for doing PP... but I'd still rather be out in nature taking pic's. Probably because I'm in IT for a living, and PC time reminds me of work
.Thanks again,
Eric
Dec 18, 2025 at 10:00 AM