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Thank you, I think you hit the nail pretty much bang on the head. I'm also my own worst critic, expecting more straight away from my first couple of attempts :ROFLMAO:

Thanks Alan, test shots sound like a good idea to see how far I can push things. I use Adobe so have the denoise in LR too. I realised what I done was resize it to that to post direct to the forum, then uploaded the same image to Flickr...it had been a long day! Thank you Jeff, appreciate it.

Thanks Alan, it certainly makes sense to me that it's probably more just user error than anything (and maybe expecting too much from heavy crops). It was on animal and eye detect but for some reason wasn't focusing on the eye like it usually would on this bird, assuming possibly because light...

That's the 'full size' after I've cropped in for how I wanted the image. Tbh after this thread and getting to throw ideas and read back theories and opinions, I think I'm maybe just looking for things that are either out of my control (distance of bird so cropping in) detail that is lost with...

Fixed it! Now you can see all the flaws :ROFLMAO:

Yeah I don't understand why it won't let me view it any larger! I've not used Flickr in a couple of years and can't fathom it out!

To be honest I just resize everything to 1024px as it's what I'm used to doing with my landscapes for social media, again, probably not best practice to be judging things on! The other image is still a fair crop. I'll post the full size (cropped) image...I'm not sure why Flickr won't show it...

Thanks, I've been doing some deep diving into the menus this evening and found a couple of things I never knew about, I'll have a look for this tomorrow too.

Thank you Jeff, I know I was way too slow on shutter speed, it was evening about an hour before sunset and just no light at all and I was just heading home and spotted it on the post so literally stopped jumped out the car and shot what I could. In hindsight I should have increased the ISO to...

P.S did I mean back focusing if it's past the intended focus point rather than front focusing? As you can tell, I'm not clued up on this sort of thing when all I do is shoot manual on landscapes that don't move!

That's good to hear Steven thank you. The owl would be maybe 30-40m away, and this is a heavy crop just to negate all the empty space to show what I perceived as an issue better. That's good to know that it's not something to be concerned with taken everything into account.

Thank you, I did have eye AF on, but it for some reason wouldn't find lock on the eye on this one, so it just gave the square around the owl, possibly down to fading light, I'm not sure, but I noticed it wasn't tracking the eye.

That's an interesting point, as last night I did make the focus zone wider than what I would normally use, and although the green box was literally just around the owl, I wonder if that's the case! I also should mention that I was looking along the fenceline to the owl so not square on, if that...

Evening folks, another dilemma post! I was out again last night for more short-eared owl images, and although I got a couple of images, the ones of this one perched on the post I noticed the barbwire past the owl is sharp where I don't think the owl is. The focus box was 100% on the owl...

Interesting regarding the evf blackout on the S1Rii as there is no blackout on my S1iie, and they're both advertised as blackout free when using electronic shutter. I have noticed that the AF isn't as accurate when tracking in electronic shutter to normal, but I never noticed evf blackout...