PhotoPlus The Canon Magazine – August 2019

The Canon Magazine 89

EOS S.O.S

Red kite

Dave GilOGley, aBinGDOn

SayS... I have been working over a

few days to get some trust from a

local nesting pair of Red Kites. I’ve

been putting out some raw chicken

wings, which seems to be a favourite

of theirs, they have either one or two

youngsters they are feeding, and

appreciate the extra free food. They get

extra food, I get pictures, fair trade.

I used my EOS 80D with a Sigma

150-600mm Sports lens. In post I’ve

cropped in a bit to make the bird a little

larger and position it more centrally

within the frame.

Brian SayS... I think you’ll be

spending a lot more time taking

photos of these Red Kites. One of the

most obvious criticisms is the clipped

feathers at the top of the frame,

zooming out a little will give you more

wing-tip room in frame. The light on the

bird is great, with a good catchlight in

the eye – the wing position is good too.

Focus is sharpest on the fence post,

but not quite as sharp on the birds

head. I’d stop the lens down a little

more to give deeper depth of field. Also

if you pre-focus on the post, manually

shift focus slightly in-front of

the post. With the birds getting used to

you now, keep on taking photographs of

these majestic raptors and improving

your results.

RAtE My PHOtO

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critiqued!

Email photos to

EOSSOS@

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with the subject

‘Rate My Photo’

Lens Sigma 150-600mm f/5-6.3 DG HS OSM Sports

Exposure 1/2500 sec, f/5, ISO800

Brian SayS... You need to connect the

camera to a computer and use Canon’s

EOS Utility software to load a custom

Picture Style. You can either create your

own styles with the Picture Style editor

software, or download Picture Style files

from the internet, including Canon in

Japan via quick link bit.ly/pp155style.

Your EOS 7D Mark II requires the .pf2

format Picture Style files. When you

create a Picture Style it’s based on the

pre-set styles originally supported by

your camera and it’s Raw files. If

you start with an EOS 7D Mark II

image it doesn’t offer Fine Detail

as a starting style. (Also see page 80.)

01 Get connected
Connect the camera to your computer
and start EOS Utility, then from the
main window choose camera settings.
This lets you configure settings and
install Picture Styles.

02 Install custom styles

Click on the Register Picture Styles link

and a dialog box appears, prompting

you to select the Picture Style file to

install in one of the camera’s three

custom styles.

03 suItable candIdates

Creating your unique Picture Styles

needs a suitable stating Raw. This

defines the base styles available.

Here an EOS 5D Mark III image doesn’t

allow Fine Detail style to be used.

How do you put a Picture

Style in to a camera, and

can you add the Fine Detail

style to EOS 7D Mark II?

Greg Peters, Sittingbourne