Eagle with lunch & RP

Gallery: AvianPosted March 27, 2017768 views6 comments

I shot this about a year ago and finally got around to reprocessing it. This was essentially a grab shot taken soon after I got my Sigma 150-600 mm contemporary lens. It was shot into the sun and I was fairly lucky to get as much detail as I did. I reprocessed the image using luminosity masks to bring out more detail. That is a clam hanging from the ducks foot.

Iso 200, Sigma 150-600 mm at 550 mm, F7 .1, 800th, D 750, 45% of full frame, handheld, Topaz and TK five luminosity masks and actions

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6 comments

Comment posted by John Neukirch on March 27, 2017 at 3:32 PM

Wow, talk about one unlucky duck. Parts of the eagle appear a bit over sharpened to me but the subject matter is awesome.

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on March 27, 2017 at 5:43 PM

Good job in difficult light, David.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on March 27, 2017 at 5:52 PM

Looks too smooth to be an oyster, David. I'd go with some kind of clam. A good job of the reprocessing, though with that strong backlight I don't think you'll be able to get an image that doesn't look rather forced. The blue tinge and noise on the body are particularly noticeable.

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on March 27, 2017 at 6:49 PM

I like the story and the potential of the image. It looks like it is just over processed. Between the sharpening and the color balance that just doesn't feel quite right.

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Comment posted by David Schoen on March 28, 2017 at 1:06 PM

Here is a repost done from the original raw file. I think this is a processing improvement. The sharpening is minimal in that it was done for print. Any further comments are really appreciated.

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Comment posted by Charles Gangas on March 28, 2017 at 4:56 PM

Very nice action under some pretty difficult light David.

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