Bald Eagle

Gallery: AvianPosted July 28, 201082 views4 comments

We recently took a little expidition to Alaska and had a wonderful opportunity to shoot a fanily of bald eagles as they swooped around a small inlet near Ketchikan. What a great thrill this was for me and my family as we just stood there on a dock and watched them come in and out and land nearby. I will post several more of this series for comments. This one I did turn into a vertical crop from a horizontal picture to get some clutter out of the frame.

D90, 70-200mm w/ 1.7 TC, f/11, 1/100 sec., ISO 200.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Carol Hyman on July 28, 2010 at 7:41 PM

A definite keeper, Walt, and I great catch. Only suggestion I would make would be to dull the bright green in the BG so it doesn't detract from your subject.

I would be thrilled with such a capture.

Cheers,

Carol

Registered on January 18, 2007, 597 Posts, 8062 Comments

Comment posted by Ron Dudley on July 28, 2010 at 8:40 PM

Walt, I like the downward looking pose with the eye still very visible and I especially like your enthusiasm for what you saw. I'd try working on this in RAW a bit - some of the whites are very bright and to my eye overall exposure could be brought down a bit while protecting the darks above the feet.

Registered on March 30, 2007, 437 Posts, 10915 Comments

Comment posted by Kenneth Arni on July 29, 2010 at 6:14 AM

Love the pose here and lots of detail, agree about softening the bg some and also adj. out the bright whites. Otherwise, great shot

Registered on December 24, 2008, 112 Posts, 629 Comments

Comment posted by Nate Chappell on July 29, 2010 at 8:19 PM

I think if you lowered the overall exposure a bit this would be excellent Walt. If you rework it from the raw that lowered exposure might also reduce the amount of noise in the image.

Registered on February 1, 2006, 1158 Posts, 19528 Comments