Grey Butcherbird, Just Singing in the Rain (sprinkler).

[Ross the fiddler]

This juvenile Grey Butcherbird & parents broke out into song as they sometimes do when we have a shower of rain, however it was just our sprinkler they seemed to want to sing about this time. The adults were out of sight higher in one of our trees.

I decided to just upload the straight jpeg files out of camera, Natural setting, Aperture Priority, Bird ID etc (OM-1 with M.ZD100-400mm f5-6.3 IS lens), just resized & sharpened for web display.






This was only cropped to 1:1 for composition.

Here is a video, two clips joined, the first was All AF Targets, hence the bird is out of focus, but I wanted to include it with their song, especially since it flew off in the second.

All taken on OM-1 with M.ZD100-400mm f5-6.3 IS lens with no editing (apart from resizing & one crop in OM Workspace). Sure, the images could all be improved & made to look slick if I had put the RAW files through Topaz Photo AI & Capture one, but I wanted to show them as they were SOOC.

[blackfox]

Lovely set Ross

[Ross the fiddler]

Thank you Jeff.

[MJ224]

Jpegs are so good out of this camera. I do wonder, sometimes, why we bother with RAW's................

[Ross the fiddler]

Jpegs are so good out of this camera. I do wonder, sometimes, why we bother with RAW's................

Yes, they aren't bad, but I always save raw as well & maybe this one is a little better (or a little over-sharpened).

Edited the raw file in Topaz Photo AI then DNG in Capture One etc.