Fight For The Fish

Gallery: AvianPosted January 8, 2014711 views8 comments

For several years of photographing Bald Eagles, I have tried to get this shot. Most of the time the event occurs too far away to photograph. This year, it happened close enough at least for a large crop picture. Eagles were in sun with water in a shadow for the BG. Some quality lost in the large crop of greater than 50%. Comments appreciated.

1DIV, EF600, ISO 800, f6.3, 1/1250, manual settings, tripod.

For those inquiring minds who want to know, the attacker did not get the fish.

Comments

8 comments

Comment posted by Hans Overduin on January 8, 2014 at 12:39 PM

An amazing moment captured Ralph, congrats for that ! It's stunning and I would kill for an image like that (as a figure of speech of course) ... Only thing I would do, is make the upper end of the image completely black: on the larger image some 'things' can be seen, and they do not add in my opinion, so if it were mine I would darken this part to make them disappear. But, again, great as posted

, Hans

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Comment posted by Mike Ramy on January 8, 2014 at 1:16 PM

Ralph,
Congrats on this capture and the action is outstanding. I know all to well how hard it is to be positioned just right to capture this type of action perfectly, a lot of time and alot of luck is required. I believe this image would hold up well with less of a crop if you can retain better detail. Boy, I'll bet your heart rate was off the chart during this event.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 8, 2014 at 6:30 PM

Very neat action, Ralph, and I like the light. The dark water bg nice.

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Comment posted by Ken Archer on January 9, 2014 at 12:23 AM

Incredible action photo Ralph

Your persistence payed off beautifully. Great light on the eagles, the dark water sets them off nicely.

Awesome Photo!!!

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on January 9, 2014 at 2:37 PM

Congrats on getting this great shot that you had been trying for Ralph. The action and lighting are spectacular with the blackish bg setting the birds off. Comp wise I wonder if you have more room on top and bottom, if you do I would try adding that and cropping some from the left to make it a vertical. Congrats again on this beauty

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Comment posted by Max Waugh on January 9, 2014 at 7:51 PM

The lighting is incredible. I had the same thought as Nate: wonder how it would look as a vertical.

Max

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Comment posted by Matthew Studebaker on January 10, 2014 at 8:54 PM

I love the dark background and dramatic light

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on January 15, 2014 at 8:33 AM

Love this behavioral action Ralph!!
Nice job pulling this off even @ 50%, I especially like the dramatic lighting

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