Bald eagle close-up

Gallery: AvianPosted September 10, 2014106 views4 comments

This is another picture taken earlier this year during a whale watching trip off the coast of Vancouver Island.

Subject: Bald eagle
Camera: Canon Eos 70D
Lens: Canon EF 300m f4 L USM.
Exposure: 1/500s @ f5.6; ISO 100.
Crop: This is appr. 50% of full frame

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Ronald Murphy on September 10, 2014 at 8:27 AM

Nice pose and good surroundings. I'd try to find some more detail in the over-bright head and over-dark underside.

Registered on March 13, 2012, 279 Posts, 975 Comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on September 10, 2014 at 8:58 AM

Hello Reiner: You have the potential for a very nice image. Nice close view (even with 50% crop) and a sharp image. The problem is the exposure. The head of an eagle should show nice detail in the white feathers. If you shot this in RAW (and I hope you did) re-processing working with the whites and highlights should enable you to bring that exposure down to reveal the detail in the white head. While you're at it, I'd work a bit on the underside of the chest to see about bringing a bit more detail out of those very dark areas.

Registered on November 20, 2003, 458 Posts, 4836 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on September 10, 2014 at 6:15 PM

Nice detailed close-up, Reiner. I might have gone for a slightly looser crop as this is starting to feel crowded to me. The whites in the head look pretty badly blown.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Jim Zablotny on September 11, 2014 at 8:24 PM

Hi,

As others have said--work on those dark shadows and whites to pull out some details. I would also clone out that pink OOF flower in the upper right hand side of the photo. This photo has a lot of potential with some prudent editing

.......................Jim

Registered on January 17, 2004, 705 Posts, 3594 Comments