White-tailed Eagle

Taken this week on the only sunny day we had but in quite a fresh wind. As a result the boat was bobbing about like a cork and it was extremely difficult to keep the bird in the frame.

Canon 1D MkIII + 300 f2.8 IS + x1.4 iso 800 (no noise reduction) 1/2000 at f5 (slight crop)

Very nice, but a tad to bright...

T

Awsome looking bird David, but the lighting looks sureal, and the head and tail look a bit strange

Hi Tom

The brightness looks OK on my monitor but your comment made me take another look and I feel the blue is the wrong shade and over saturated. I am having trouble adjusting to the better saturation the MkIII files give you - hope this look a little better!

Andy

I don.t know what you mean about the head and tail looking strange as this is exactly how they look - have you ever seen one?

David

Hi David,

Cracking shot. These are awsome birds, I'll never forget seeing one of these take a Fulmar in full flight on Skye back in the early nineties, I'd love to get this close though as my views were distant. Was this in Scotland or Norway?

Mark

Hi David - yep, though many moons ago: what I meant was they looked a tad over ex'd - the repost looks better and the eye is a bit more defined now, plus there's a lot more definition in the tail - appologies for sounding vague

Hi Andy

Yes the head and bill are very pale and have a tendency to burn out in good light - on both images I had to do some selective work on the head, bill and tail to preserve the detail which is not helped by a compressed jpeg!

David

Cracking shot of the bird, but definately a wierd blue and slightly washed out look perhaps an effect of high ISO and the loss of dynamic range shows with the tail. Wish I had a shot as good.



Tim

Hi Dave,

Not sure how much is due to jpeg compression, but I did feel something didn't look right, took the liberty of downloading and the majority of the tail area does peak out at 255 in all three channels so I do feel that the overall 'levels' may be too high here... Its a great shot but some more can be pulled from the file I feel.

Love the pose and comp....

All the best & speak soon

Phil

Hi Phil

I know what you mean - I rarely check the histogram of my jpegs for the web as the 'tiff' file is fine. This is one of those images that suffers more than others when compressed!

David

Hi David,
Stunning shot , feather detail is awsome , prefer the repost.

Kind regards
Andy...

Hi David

A cracking shot of a species that has been photographed to saturation point,a different shot that stands out from the others,great angle,superb lighting.
In my eyes its a winner!


Craig
www.craigchurchill.co.uk

I sometimes have trouble with some images that no matter what I seem to do, they compress really badly, yet the tiff looks fine

I think a bit more contrast or slight darkening of the beak, for me, would improve this for web presentation David. Saying that, never seen and if their beaks are really pale, then nice one. Love the comp and pose

Hi David nice capture but it is bright on my monitor. I realise it is difficult with bright sunshine.
John
Aberdeen

Hi David

Excellent flight shot, the second post is much better. Glad to see the Sea Eagle trip worked out and the MkIII worked well.



cheers

Sean

A beautiful shot showing the wingspread and feather detail, and you have caught the eagle in the perfect position. Does look a little washed out/overexposed on my monitor, too.

bright... but so beautiful. Awesome photograph of the eagle. Those wing feather just ping out of the screen. Would probably just drop the mid tone/shadows to give a bit more weight to the brown feathers. Still cracking though!