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After looking at this page I am a little hesitant to post my stuff. Awesome images everyone.
The less classy way to leave your lover.
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Visiting friends in central Oregon near Bend, outside of town there are areas of farmland where one sees many predators: eagles, different hawks, and, in this case, an American kestrel whom I glimpsed taking off from her perch on telephone wires---

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There she goes---

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Up, up and away!

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Winter is all but gone and spring has returned. Now I am even more excited....the return of Osprey to the area. This is my FOS (first of season) capture just last week. From the series, there are a few soft images that I fixed using Topaz Sharpening AI. You might think I missed one but I had two similar images 1006 and 1007. Somehow I deleted 1007. The ones that were soft are 1008, 1012 and 1013. If I had used ProCapture, I would have gotten shots just as it lifted off that dead tree.

I captured more as it flown but the rest of the sequences are picture of it against plain blue sky. I thought the take off sequences are more interesting. Anyhow, I expect OM-1 to improve in these areas. With EM1.3 I often got the shot in focus but the final result is too soft. I glad I had tried Topaz Sharpening AI. In the past, I would have deleted those 3 images.

My settings are C-AF 3x3, 18FPS Sequential L, Cloudy white balance, -2 Sensitivity, EPS metering. I also used Focus limiter from 30 to 80meters.

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EM131006_DxO by Narin, on Flickr
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EM131008_DxO by Narin, on Flickr
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EM131010_DxO by Narin, on Flickr
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EM131011_DxO by Narin, on Flickr
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EM131012_DxO by Narin, on Flickr
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EM131013_DxO by Narin, on Flickr
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EM131014_DxO by Narin, on Flickr
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EM131015_DxO by Narin, on Flickr

Sorry I messed up the sequence a bit and had to insert image 1009 at the end.
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EM131009_DxO by Narin, on Flickr
 
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Not your normal bird photograph, but today I found myself eating lunch, at a table outside, at Café Yumm! in Bend, Oregon - when out of nowhere an adventuresome, tiny and very fast-moving house sparrow landed at my feet and hopped madly about before taking off. My E-M1 was nearby and I managed to get just one shot - but I rather the effect.

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That is a spectacular photo and even more impressive that you took that with an EPL7! Did you have the camera set up near the flower and use a remote app to trigger the shutter?
Many thanks, Dan. The camera was hand-held (I tend to use high shutter speeds and not worry much about ISO). I sit close to my "garden" consisting of a few flowering plants and wait for a hummingbird or butterfly to come to the flowers (I find sitting down allows me to hold the camera steady better than standing). The hummingbird was about 10 ft (3 m) from me. For butterflies I usually sit about 3 ft (1 m, the close-focusing distance of my lens) from the flowers.
 
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