Bald Eagle

Excellent exposure with good detail on most of her dark underside & fantastic feather detail. I envy you this shot (and your luck). I suspect that the light was difficult, so doubly commendable.

very nice, Peter. good light, details, exposure, and a very nice pose. I think I'd add some canvas all around to give it a bit more room.

Simply awesome - wish they flew this close to us in my parts. There does seem to be a little halo around the bird though

- Luke

Great shot of an eagle, nice detail in the feathers. Good work Peter



R. Melvin Park

Beautiful pose, lighting and good sharpness. Cool that you didn't have to clip the wings, although a bit more space would have been perfect. This definitely works well though. I also really like the shadow of the open beak.

Super Sweet

Ken Archer

Awesome capture. Love the open mouth and the diagonal composition.
May

Great wingspread with nice detail under the wings. Splendid capture of the expression/emotion of the moment.

Wow. I would be excited to get this one. Super sharp and well lit. Congrats!

Beautiful, Peter. Excellent composition, I like the open beak and the exposure is perfect.

Incredible shot Peter. To be that close to this animal is a great moment. The light on the wings, face and feet are perfect.

Thank you all for your comments. I will correct the image with the feedback you have given me. This was a lucky shot… most of the pics have clipped wings or half the bird.

- Peter
Alberta, Canada

Top notch image quality Peter. Great view of this stunning adult.

Nice detail and wing spread Peter. I'd be tempted to add a fraction more canvas around the bird.

cheers
Rob

Great shot!

D&L

Super detail and exposure in this shot Peter. Personally, I like the comp as posted. The only distraction for me is the broad halo around the bird. This can be an artifact of reducing the image size for posting and can be mostly eliminated by changing some settings in photoshop if that is what you used to process this image for posting. The halo can also come from sharping. I can help you eliminate the halo if you would like. I offer the help because I know how frustrated I was with halos forming until someone helped me out. Thanks Mia.

Very nice capture in nice light. I agree it is a bit tight.

The halo is quite noticeable. I've never seen a halo from just reducing the size of an image as Ron Bielefeld suggests, and sharpening is unlikely as the reason unless the parameters used were much different than I use. I suspect the halo is the result of exposure tweaking on the eagle that spilled out into the sky.

Thanks Gary, Rob , D&L,Ron and Richard for your comments. I will have to cut and paste more sky into the photo as I am using the full vertical size of the original NEF file.
I think the halo is a result of my poor sharpening technique. I used unsharpen mask after I had cropped and resized the pic. I have redone the image and I think the halo is gone in the new image. I'll post the redone image in small format and try to put a large sample in my Gallery.

When you say Halo are you referring to a sort of white outline around the edges of the eagle.. i.e. the shoulders of this bird when too much sharpening is applied or is a Halo a brightness extending out from the subject into the sky. ?

Thanks again
Peter
Alberta, Canada

That's a beautiful flying display. Great detail on theunderside of thewings. I feel the crop is a bit tight though.(something I learned to be aware of here on NPN)

Peter,
you got a superb flight shot!

Peter,

The second image you posted does have a rather large halo, but it is also only 65 KB's, which means it was compressed much more than the original image you posted which is 189 KB's. Compressing an image that much is going to cause loss of detail and possibly artifacts.

When sharpening it is best to selectively mask the areas that need to be sharpened and then only sharpen those areas. I highly recommend not sharpening the sky.

Thanks Mia... I understand now. I have reworked the original (large pic posted) as I thought it was over sharp. I now see what is meant by a Halo in the small images. Obvious now to me.

Thanks again;

Peter
Alberta, Canada

That's a spectacular pose and I really don't mind the tightness of this shot it shows off the details better.