Eagle Aggression

Gallery: AvianPosted May 29, 2017145 views4 comments

A couple juvenile Bald Eagles getting aggressive over some carrion on the tide flats at the Old Town-site, Valdez, Alaska. Taken early this Spring so the colors are pretty drab but the action was good.
I had been trying to get shots with multiple eagles and wanted all of the eagles in focus so I had a much narrower aperture than I should have or needed for this event but I had no time to adjust when they got into it.

Sony a6500, SE 70-200 f2.8 GM lens @ 95mm (142 mm with crop factor), f/9.0, 1/1000, hand held.

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4 comments

Comment posted by Peter J. Morrissey on May 29, 2017 at 3:16 PM

Hi Gary
They look sharp to me,good action shot.
Peter

Registered on July 3, 2011, 188 Posts, 969 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on May 29, 2017 at 4:23 PM

This is wonderful action, Gary, and I like the poses and thw way they create flow through the image. I agree that the large dof takes away a bit from the image. You might think about applying just a little bit of blur to the bg, though I think I'd leave the grasses in front of the eagles alone.

BTW. I'm afraid I don't have any solutions for swallows in flight. Even with lots of them living in boxes here I still don't have any really good flight shots. Someone was posting some really nice ones a couple of years ago, but I can't recall his name.

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on May 29, 2017 at 7:23 PM

Great action and detail here Gary, neat to be so close to this to shoot it at devil