"Quail Covering Ground" Olympus EM1 Mk II with Digital Tele-Converter (Thanks AndyS!)

[George McGovern]

[Walleye]

1. Cool. That bird is moving out.

Nice detail on the feathers

[George McGovern]

2. Thanks Walleye. He was reacting to getting his picture taken.

[Walleye]

3. I love photographing birds. They're so fast can't see what they're doing unless you stop the action

And they’re beautiful, their wings are fascinating. I spent a lot of my career shooting sports and birds are an excellent subject for action

[George McGovern]

4. Neat! Would you mind telling about your career shooting sports? Professionally?

Sports are fun to shoot too.

[Walleye]

5. I was staff photographer for the Delaware news journal for 20 years

I got to cover everything from the Phillies in the World Series, Eagles in the NFL all the way down to high school and little league. I enjoyed all that. there’s hardly any sport I haven’t covered at least once and I was privileged to go to the 2004 Olympics in Athens as a photographer on loan to USA Today, they owned our company. I did other assignments as well, but sports was my favorite

[George McGovern]

6. What a terrific opportunity! Which camera(s) did you/do you use?

[Walleye]

7. I started with Nikon but the company had so many good long Canon lenses that I switched to Cannon

We went to all digital in 2000 and the company began providing all of our equipment. Of course I supplemented it with some of my own lenses. When I retired I bought a Canon EOS 7D. I have a 400 mm F5,6 that I use for birds, handheld. The technology has improved so much in the past few years. I get pretty good shots of the hummingbirds with the 200 mm since they’re right on my porch about 5 feet away. I still can’t figure out how to post pictures here on DU.

[George McGovern]

8. Nice. I shot Nikon for 35 years before choosing Olympus.

Have you posted any photos in this group? I looked quickly and didn't see any.

[Walleye]

9. I can't work out how to do it. I tried Imajur and didn't get very far

I was posting on Instagram a lot but it got too crazy

[George McGovern]

11. If I can send you a DU mail with instructions?

Or maybe an email so you could have instructions on one screen and practice posting on another.
I was taught how to post by forum member AndyS and instructions are all written down.

[Walleye]

13. Yes please. I would love to try again. I communicate so much better with pictures than words

[AndyS]

10. There are instructions for posting images pinned at the

top of the Photo group. Easy enough once you do it.

I use imgur.

[AndyS]

12. Nice shot!

I don't know what magic the camera works with the digital 2x but I don't see any degradation in the image. I guess it's an example of AI and computational imaging.

Neat how he is air borne with both feet off the ground.

[George McGovern]

14. However it works the 2x really helps get closer. Thanks AndyS!

[Diamond_Dog]

15. OMG. That is stunning!

FABULOUS shot! The detail blows me away!

[George McGovern]

16. Thank You Diamond!

[StarryNite]

17. Great picture of a cute little guy!

[George McGovern]

18. Thank You StarryNite!

[Ziggysmom]

19. Awesome photo of one of my fav birds. I had button quail as pets when I was a kid.

Their chicks are so tiny and cute, only the size of a nickel when they hatch.

[George McGovern]

20. I'll bet your quail pets were really cute. Thanks Ziggysmom!