Your Canon Photos No. 15: 13th to 19th August 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 continue to join in and comment on others' photos.

David

Hi all,

A woodland walk.

A ChiffChaff in an ancient part of the wooded area. (Aperture f/7.1 <> (SS): 1/1000 <> ISO 2500 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Custom <> Metering: Partial <> Focus Mode: AI Servo <> FL: 600mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

Himalayan balsam, a strange looking plant. It's considered an invasive non-native plant. Each plant can produce up to 800 seeds, the seedpod can propel the seeds upto 7 mtrs. So they spread very fast. (Aperture f/7.1 <> (SS): 1/160 <> ISO 2000 <> 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 70D).

Grey Squirrel. (Aperture f/8 <> (SS): 1/125 <> ISO 125 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Custom <> Metering: Partial <> Focus Mode: AI Servo <> FL: 600mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 150-600mm f/5-6.3 Di VC USD <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II).

Bee doing its thing. (Aperture f/7.1 <> (SS): 1/250 <> ISO 125 <> EC: 0 <> PASM Mode: Manual <> Focus Mode: AI Servo <> FL: 90mm <> Lens: Tamron SP 90mm f/2.8 Di VC USD Macro <> Camera ID: Canon EOS 7D Mark II <> Notes: Evaluative metering used for initial start point).

Dear Friends,

I was going to send this as a private message to you all, but the limit is six addresses!

I looked at the forums in the Photographic Genres section this morning and analysed their useage in terms of the number of threads active in the past two months:

(Numbers mean <1 month old, 1 month old)

Abstract, Minimalism and Creative: 8, 2
Architecture: 0 ,1
Documentary and Street: 25, 5
Events Photography: 1, 0
Home Photography: 0, 0
Landscape and Travel Photography: 7, 3
Macro and Still Life Photography: 3, 6
Nature and Wildlife Photography: 7,16
Photo Art: 0, 0
Portrait and People Photography: 4, 0
Sport and Action Photography: 0, 1
Transportation: 1, 1
Underwater Photography: 0, 0

I then turned my attention to the News and Discussions section, in which Technical Discussions, Photography News, and Buying Advice have not been visted in the past month.

Our area (Image Discussions), within News and Discussions, is full of two things:

-- many individual threads (including a redundant locked thread: Welcome to an M4/3 section)

-- regularly active threads

Your Canon Photos
This week through your eyes
Lonely Benches
Weekly X-Series
Wednesday C&C

Additionally,

Sunday Cat is in Photographic Equipment/Olympus/OM Systems
Monthly Fujifilm Sharing: August is in Photographic Equipment/Fujifilm

It seems to me that these seven weekly/monthly threads need to be in their own folders. Personally, I would like to see a top level category Weekly/Monthly Photo-sharing, and within it folders for

Your Canon Photos
This week through your eyes
Lonely Benches
Weekly X-Series
Wednesday C&C
Sunday Cat
Monthly Fujifilm Sharing

The titles might be unified, and there would be room for the addition of others, should there be a demand (e.g. Your weekly Nikon photos). In this way, all the weekly Canon and other threads would be in their own folders, which would form useful archives for searching, instead of rolling off the bottom of a long list of threads, as at present.

What do you all think?

Best,

David

The other day, I showed a picture of the Kahlenberg from Spittelau (the Fernwärme):

So, now that the hot sunny weather has returned, I drove up there to take pictures in the other direction. This shows both the Fernwärme (right hand side of the picture) and the Flakturm that I showed in an earlier set (left hand side).

Also, in the distance, one can see the Gloriette in the gardens of the Schloß Schönbrunn (also shown in an earlier outing):

A wider view from Kahlenberg over the Danube (Donau), shows that there are two arms to the river (there is another, the Donau Kanal, which passes by the edge of the inner city, which I also showed here earlier...). We are here looking at the Danube in the downstream direction -- towards Budapest. The right hand stream (brown!) is the main one. To the left of it used to be a wide flood plain, that indeed used to flood. Between 1972 and 1988, the earth from the flood plain was dug out and piled up, creating an island (Donau Insel) 21km long and 70-210 m wide, and a new stream, called the Neue Donau. This stream is bluer than the main stream, because it is closed by locks at both ends, only opened when the river is high, to avoid flooding in the town. Once can swim with the swans in this part. The bridge between the skyscrapers and the church is the Reichsbrücke. This was rebuilt after it collapsed just before 5am on 1 August 1976. The current bridge was built 1978-80, and since 1982 the subway trains pass through the middle of it, under the car lanes, with room for cycles on either side of the bridge. There is a station in the bridge which gives access to the Donau Island.

Finally, turning away from the river, we see the antenna and the Polish church, dedicated to St. Joseph.

David

As an inexperienced photographer, If I was thinking about buying a Canon camera, I would go to:
Equipment>Canon>Your Canon Photos to see what kind of pictures a Canon camera takes.

If I already owned a Canon camera, I would go to:
Equipment>Canon>Your Canon Photos to see how other Canon users are using their cameras to see if I could pick up any tips on how to improve my own photography, and to share with other like-minded Canon owners the pictures I have taken, and see what pictures they have taken.

For questions about how my Canon operates, I would go to:
Equipment>Canon

For any other discussions about the philosophy of photography, I would go somewhere else.

Steve Thomas.

Thanks for your reponse. What you say makes sense, Steve, and I would be quite happy with that as a solution. But the powers that be here want to avoid the emphasis on “gear”, and that is why that section has been put nearly at the bottom of the page. Though why all the photos have to be lumped together, as I explained, is a mystery to me. I also keep reading that the management wants the forums to be only part of the site; but so far nothing else has materialised after five months. I do not know what is going on any more than you! Maybe they will listen to us, as this is supposed to be a member-driven site, and our weekly threads are among the best here!

David

@mocha123 again a nice set !
@davidwien, nice to see Vienna from a different point of view
Saw the skyscraper (the DC Towers) yesterday😂

It has some kind of leading role in a movie "Extraction II" with Chris Hemsworth on Netflix

Not the best weather today, high humidity and few dark clouds but we did go out for a short hike again
Visited the Holtingerveld area this time and followed some of the available trails.
The whole Holtingerveld area contains a few nature reserves (natura 2000 reserve) ec.europa.eu/environment/nature/natura2000/index_en.htm like many of the reserves in our little country The Netherlands. A smaller closed to public part is still being used as a proving/training ground for the 43rd Mechanized Brigade.
We both were lacking a bit of inspiration so not the greatest and perfect photos😁
(Canon EOS 5D Mark IV - EF70-200mm f/2.8L IS II USM)

(Canon Eos RP - Canon RF 24-240mm F/4-6.3 IS USM)

(Canon Eos RP - Canon RF 24-240mm F/4-6.3 IS USM)

(Canon Eos R - Canon RF 24-105mm F4.0L IS USM)

(Canon Eos R - Canon RF 24-105mm F4.0L IS USM)

Did you catch the one person sitting in the beach chairs in front of the Polish Church?

I wonder what was in his or her mind.

Steve Thomas

LOL. He was fast asleep!

David

Interesting. Do you have any particular site in mind there or is it just something you don‘t have much interest in?

I don‘t have a strong preference for any brand personally, but the main goal (I think) the admin team here was trying to reach, is getting things on a more top level and not as isolated, in order for this whole thing to

a.) work as an image-focused site first and foremost (even though gear-discussion still has its place), and
b.) to be a less segregated forum overall, making it more likely for people to share their experiences and results regardless of brand, sensor size or any other technical aspect.

I feel like it‘s a good and necessary step honestly.

As many have stated "gear talk" isn't something this site will ever be able to match or even come close to dpreview. It's just not in the cards, given the size, name-recognition and funding of that site. However in other areas it might be able to provide content on a similar or even higher quality level, both in terms of editorial content, as well as in a forum, which by design isn't limited too much by brand/gear-dictated borders and conventions.

All that being said, if you feel like your thread is more at home under "Photographic Equipment > Canon" that's perfectly understandable of course, it certainly fits there as well. So if most of the regular participants agree I think it won't be a problem for @AlanSh to move it there.

I don't think creating subfolders is any help to be honest... on the contrary it will complicate the (in my opinion quite nice) simplified layout again and fracture the small community even further. If I'm not mistaken sorting things like that (for example showing you all "Your Canon Photos" threads with one click), will be possible at a certain point by tags anyway, so archiving shouldn't be a problem. I would assume it might even be possible to link to such a "tag-search-result" so you can implement that at the start of every thread or wherever anyone wants to promote it. At least that's how I imagine that...

Just to re-emphasize from my personal perspective:

This forum is the first one where I decided to take a look at a weekly Pentax thread, a Fuji-thread and (low and behold) a Canon thread. The overly gear-focused structure on dpreview + its size (which makes the extreme separation possible in the first place) prevented me from ever doing that. I'm glad I did, and I'm happy to contribute to this thread and a couple of other regular image sharing threads wherever they end up, but personally I'm not in favor of putting the tiny bit of additional "seeing beyond your own nose" we've recently had here at risk, by separating things up too much.

Today With Your Pentax is in: Photographic Equipment>Pentax
This week With Your Sony APS-C is in: Photographic Equipment>Sony
Monthly Fujifilm Photo-sharing is in: Photographic Equipment>Fujifilm
Sunday Cat is Photographic Equipment>Olympus
This Month With Your Adapted Lens is in: Photographic Equipment>Adapted and 3rd Party Lens

Your Canon Photos is in: News and Discussions>Image Discussions>Critiques and Challenges
This is the same place that they have Fuji's X-Series Weekly Photo Sharing Thread.

Steve Thomas

Hi David
Thanks for putting this up.

Anything that makes it easier to find my interests would be a welcome change.
Although I followed a link the first time into the Canon or Fuji-x photos threads, the next time I looked I could not remember where it was.

Being buried in "News and Discussions" doesn't provide any sort of clue that images are in the folder.

A top-level thread with '"time-period" Photo-sharing' or similar as part of the name would make it so much easier to find, at least for us older, forgetful types.

At the moment I don't even know if Fuji-X Weekly is continuing as I cannot find this weeks current photo thread.

Cheers
Paul

Just a few simpler shots today with the R8.
I do love the focussing ability on that camera, it's very reliable.
I have it set to 40 fps now but I am pretty certain it doesn't get anywhere near that with my Tamron and TC.
The electronic shutter add-on sound is not in sync with the actual photos taken when you do a burst so I have learned to leave it depressed a little longer.
Still, minor complaints and it's really very good.

A Male Hardhead duck, the male has the white eye.

Another Australasian Grebe pic, these guys are tiny and look very cute so always happy to get yet another shot of them while they are still around.

A Little Pied Cormorant drying its wings in the winter sun (it was a cloudy day actually so might've been there awhile)

Lastly, an Egret (Great Egret I think) was doing a little fishing but I got too close and spooked it after a while and it decided to take off.
Not particularly happy with the shot as I did some work on it to try to recover some detail in the wing but my PhotoLab 6 skills are still not great.

Thanks
Paul

Subject: Lake Tahoe

I have so many photos from my vacation to Lake Tahoe, that I don't know which ones I should show next. So I thought I would start with these three. They were taken in California near the Nevada border where there are casinos.

Photo No. 1 - Lake Tahoe is known for it's clarity. It's one of my favorite places to photograph.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/250 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 100
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 15 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 2 - It's popular for all sorts of boats and canoes.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/500 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 200
ExposureBiasValue - 0
FocalLength - 45 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

Photo No. 3 - I just love the night time skies. I didn't know I had the ISO so high, but the photo came out OK. If I had known, I would have dropped the shutter speed substantially. So, consider this a mistake on my part.

Model - Canon EOS M50m2
ExposureTime - 1/500 seconds
FNumber - 9
ISOSpeedRatings - 12800
ExposureBiasValue - -0.33
FocalLength - 24 mm
Lens Model - EF-M15-45mm f/3.5-6.3 IS STM

Hi Mocha
That's a beautiful bird, no distracting elements, interesting perch and good framing.
Nicely done.
Is it different to a Chaff Finch? Not sure if we get them in oz.

Cheers
Paul

Mocha,

You found so many good things to photograph. I'm glad to see you are still using the Tamron 150-600mm lens. I really like the bird and the squirrel pictures. That bee closeup is amazing. That macro lens is worth every penny.

Photobygms,

Thanks for taking us along on your hike. It's great to see other places. I like that you went out in bad weather and didn't let it stop you from taking pictures.