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    Default Great crested grebes - courtship

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    Camera Model Canon EOS-1D X
    Shooting Mode Manual Exposure
    Tv(Shutter Speed) 1/2000
    Av(Aperture Value) 8.0
    Metering Mode Evaluative Metering
    Exposure Compensation -1/3
    ISO Speed 3200
    Auto ISO Speed ON
    Lens EF500mm f/4L IS USM +2x
    Focal Length 1000.0mm

    All C&C welcome, I have been back several times, caught the weed exchanges as opposed to the dance , but the light and the background was not good.

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    Lovely image, a tenderness in their courting. If birds love it is certainly displayed in the look of the bird with the tilted head. Thank you for sharing, Jonathan.
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    A beautiful image.
    You are getting some great tack sharp shots with your 2x- not easy to do!
    The head positions of both birds are what set this image apart from the ordinary!
    Very nice
    Gail

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    Great interaction and superb details throughout - a really nice shot Jon

    Mike

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    Hi Jon love this behavior shot .
    Great pose and and lovely overall tone and color palette

    I think you should have gone to F 9/10 for a bit more DOF / IQ when shooting with the 2x TC . As the bird on the left appear to be a bit softer than the bird on the right .
    Have you applied any NR to the subjects ? I am just asking curious if you did in DPP ?
    Very nice frame , TFS Andreas

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    Hi Jon, you are so fortunate to get to capture these guys, and I wish I could have this in my files. Love the overall colours on these Grebes, and the tilted head of the LH Grebe takes this over the top.

    Before reading Andreas comment, I too thought the LH Grebe's head a bit softer than the other one.

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    Thanks very much everyone for the comments. I usually try to go for a little less than full aperture with the 2xTC, in this case the subject was going to be cropped and as it was in the centre I thought image quality would be very little different. A little more DOF would have been nice.
    These were the DPP4 settings:

    Brightness adjustment -0.17
    White balance Click white balance A3.0
    Picture Style (Standard)
    Contrast 0.0
    Shadow +3.0
    Highlight -4.0
    Sharpness Strength : 1.0
    Reduce luminance noise 5.0
    Reduce chrominance noise 7.0
    If you have any reservations Andreas or comments then they are most welcome.

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    Hi Jon i would not call it reservations Jon ..... i just might try to set Lumo NR to 0 , and deal with the lumo noise in PS . As i find the value of 5 a bit high for ISO 3200 .
    From my POV always better to close the aperture when using a TC ..... well if light allows .
    Cheers Andreas

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