Bald Eagles

RKnechtRKnecht Registered Users Posts: 366 Major grins
edited December 23, 2009 in Wildlife
Went out in hopes of capturing some eagle action. Most of the day was pretty ho-hum until a friend decided to eat his sandwich. The smell of the food must have made the eagles hungry. As soon as he started to eat, the eagles decided they wanted lunch too. I have yet to get a fishing image, but these will have to do for now. All are with my D3, 300 2.8, and TC20EII and are about 80% of the frame (yep, these birds were CLOSE).

This eagle took a fish coming right at us, but tree branches made any good shots of the action impossible.

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#2
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And what an AWESOME blue sky we had!!

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  • rontront Registered Users Posts: 1,473 Major grins
    edited December 22, 2009
    Excellent series RKnecht!! That was a good sized fish. I enjoyed all of these!

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  • kdogkdog Administrators Posts: 11,681 moderator
    edited December 23, 2009
    Man, those are great shots! thumb.gifthumb
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  • NorthernFocusNorthernFocus Registered Users Posts: 1,347 Major grins
    edited December 23, 2009
    Beatiful series. The wing position on the first two is excellent. Well captured thumb.gif
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  • rhondavidrhondavid Registered Users Posts: 433 Major grins
    edited December 23, 2009
    Oh Wow!!! These are incredible shots of my most favorite bird. Shape as a tack, great detail and excellent control of DOF to make very pleasing background. Love that blue sky too.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited December 23, 2009
    Marvelous images Rich. clap.gif You sure made the most of your opportunity.

    My only nit with the images are the faint sharpening halos (its more obvious in 3&4).

    Here's a link to some info from Fabs Forns on how to avoid those halos
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  • dlplumerdlplumer Registered Users Posts: 8,081 Major grins
    edited December 23, 2009
    Fabulous images clap.gif
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  • RKnechtRKnecht Registered Users Posts: 366 Major grins
    edited December 23, 2009
    Harryb wrote:
    Marvelous images Rich. clap.gif You sure made the most of your opportunity.

    My only nit with the images are the faint sharpening halos (its more obvious in 3&4).

    Here's a link to some info from Fabs Forns on how to avoid those halos

    Thanks for the link Harry. If I processed them in Photoshop, I would have most definitely done this. However, I use NX2 for most of my processing now and I did "remove" my sharpening from the edges of the bird. I guess I had the opacity of my brush turned down a bit too much. I appreciate the information though, it's what I look for. Sometimes when you process a lot of images, your eyes don't "see" stuff that others can pick up on.
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  • RhuarcRhuarc Registered Users Posts: 1,464 Major grins
    edited December 23, 2009
    Amazing! I especially live the first few with the brown background. It perfectly compliments the gorgeous colors of their feathers! I especially like the feather detail on #2!!

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