Your Canon Photos No. 10: 9th to 15th July 2023

This weekly thread is principally intended for you to show others the photos made with Canon cameras of all sorts: SLR, DSLR, Mirrorless, M-series, APS-C, film, etc. BUT all brands of camera will be accepted, including photos taken with your phone. We do enjoy reading an accompanying text explaining your photo and any special techniques you may have used. Comments and helpful criticisms on others' photos are also welcome: we can all learn something from each other. We look forward to seeing your photos.

A new thread for the following week will be posted next Saturday around 10 pm UK time.

Digirame and I will be active here and are sharing the hosting, but we hope that all will join in and comment on others' photos.

David

I was going to post these in the old thread as they were taken yesterday, but I'm just following the instruction to post here. I know it looks more like a river side catwalk but this is an outfit that is made from recycled material purchased from a charity shop. Who needs designer outfits 😀 the sun was out but i became over cast by the time my neighbour was free to take the photos for my portfolio.

Canon EOS 1100D with a 100mm lens (I think he said 100mm).

This week no hiking but a short stroll near the Port Of Rotterdam Europoort at a small peninsula called the landtong Rozenburg.
Posted also at the www.flickr.com/groups/dprevived/ group.
Also shot analog again, so will have to develop again soon😋
Didn't take all our gear this time only my 5DIV and 1V with three lenses:

Grey heron by Photobygms, on Flickr
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - Canon EF 70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM +2x III TC (400mm)
The combo EF 70-200 with the 2x TC still do sometimes suprise me. Picture quality is surprisingly good.

Caland Kanaal by Photobygms, on Flickr
Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - EF24-70mm f/2.8L II USM

And one shot whit the Canon EF 14mm f/2.8L II USM:

Hi all,

More Cornwall and its countryside.

Caerhays Castle built in 1808 is a semi-castellated country house. (Aperture f/9 <> (SS): 1/200 <> ISO 200 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Aperture Priority <> Metering: Evaluative <> Focus Mode: One Shot <> FL: 130mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 70-300mm f/4-5.6 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

The main lodge. (Aperture f/9 <> (SS): 1/250 <> ISO 100 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Aperture Priority <> Metering: Evaluative <> Focus Mode: One Shot <> FL: 17mm <> Lens: Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

The view from Caerhays Castle overlooking Porthluney Cove. (Aperture f/9 <> (SS): 1/200 <> ISO 100 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Aperture Priority <> Metering: Evaluative <> Focus Mode: One Shot <> FL: 17mm <> Lens: Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 EX DC OS HSM <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

More wildflowers. (Aperture f/8 <> (SS): 1/125 <> ISO 250 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Aperture Priority <> Metering: Evaluative <> Focus Mode: One Shot <> FL: 90mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Macro <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

5-Spot Burnet moth. (Aperture f/7.1 <> (SS): 1/500 <> ISO 1250 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Custom <> Metering: Partial <> Focus Mode: AI Servo <> FL: 90mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Macro <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

An older one, have posted it before in a different thread:
Three in a row 😁

Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - SIGMA 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM

I wonder who lives here?

The Children of the Corn, I suppose.

Steve Thomas

Marlot,

Those are very nice. I see improvements over the last set of photos you have shown. The hands and feet are no longer cut off and the backgrounds are not distracting or too bright. One thing I learned a long time ago, is the entire picture is important, not just the subject matter. So by paying attention to that you make everything so much better. The photos could have been straightened but it's not entirely necessary. It's one of those things that it is up to the photographer of how they want to show it. The exposure looks good on my monitor too.

Photobygms,

My favorite picture is the heron. The landscape scenes look great also...what a lovely area to take a walk!

Mocha,

I just love seeing your castle pictures. That third picture is so picturesque. I like your wildflowers and moth too.

Photobygms,

That's a good capture of the three birds in a row. They are all facing the same direction too.

Steve,

And summer is a great time for corn! I like getting the corn cobs at the store...yummy. 😀

Subject: Mt. St. Helens HDR photo

Yesterday I was out taking pictures at a Mt. St. Helens area in Washington state. It erupted in 1980.

This required a little creativity to enhance it by making a HDR photo. I don't have the software to do that. So are any of you able to take what I show here and make a HDR image? Would you be able to do that and show us what it would look like?

Photo No. 1 - Negative .67 Exposure Compensation

Model - Canon EOS Rebel T7i
ExposureTime - 1/800 seconds
FNumber - 8
ISOSpeedRatings - 400
ExposureBiasValue - -0.67
FocalLength - 18 mm
Lens Model - EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

Photo No. 2 - Negative 1.00 Exposure Compensation

Model - Canon EOS Rebel T7i
ExposureTime - 1/1000 seconds
FNumber - 8
ISOSpeedRatings - 400
ExposureBiasValue - -1
FocalLength - 18 mm
Lens Model - EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

Photo No. 3 - Negative .33 Exposure Compensation

Model - Canon EOS Rebel T7i
ExposureTime - 1/640 seconds
FNumber - 8
ISOSpeedRatings - 400
ExposureBiasValue - -0.33
FocalLength - 18 mm
Lens Model - EF-S18-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM

Isn't that like a volcano?

San x

San,

Thanks for the reply. Yes, that's a volcano that erupted about 43 years ago. The eruption was so massive that it destroyed the trees as far away as where I took this picture. It flattened trees in seconds with a tremendous blast, knocking them over like toothpicks.

Great to see a lot of nice pics and stories here from many skilled photographers.

Cheers
Paul

Out at my usual haunt of Sydney's Bicentennial Park on Saturday morning.

It's winter here, still quite warm but things have been pretty quiet.

I was told by a fellow enthusiast that the birds were enjoying the lake fish for breakfast over the last few day but no action on Saturday unfortunately.

All taken with my Canon R8 Tamron 100-400 + Tamron 1.4 teleconverter

Cormorant carefully scratching its lower beak

A Little Egret was standing around the corner from the lake where the water runs off under a road bridge.
It has a black beak and yellow colour on its face.

In the same are was an Intermediate Egret (I think that's the right name) with its yellow/brown beak and white feathers. The Little Egret was about two-thirds the size.

Cheers
Paul

Dig,

You should be able to do that in-camera with your T7i.
Look at your Special Scenes under HDR Backlight Control. It will take 3 consecutive pictures: one at standard exposure, one at minus EC, and a third at plus E, and combine them into one photo.

You can couple that with exposure compensation bracketing, and have those positive and negative compensations spread farther apart to 1 or 2 or 3 full stops.

You've also got the HDR effects in your Creative Filters mode.

Steve Thomas

Steve,

Thanks. 😀 I tried it a few minutes ago, but the first one was way off. The second was OK. It "forced" me to use F3.5 at 18mm FL. The shutter speed and ISO were different. As far as I know the camera will not let me choose the settings I want such as seen in the three photos I showed...then process them in camera. Do other cameras do that? Does anyone know?

I don't understand how you can couple that with the exposure compensation bracketing that I chose. Is the Canon T7i different than the T8i that way?

I was checking even further. It looks like even the Canon R6 requires HDR software for Auto Exposure Bracketing (AEB). I'll look more into it tomorrow and possibly just buy software. I've been putting it off. But yesterday was a prime example why I needed to make a HDR image.