eagle fly-by

squirl033squirl033 Registered Users Posts: 1,230 Major grins
edited January 13, 2010 in Wildlife
while i was at the park yesterday waiting for a common merganser to come into range, i got a different treat... this bald eagle flew by several times, looking for fish. he made one pass so close i had to back off my zoom to 200mm to get the shot! the sky wasn't exactly cooperative, and the light was pretty flat, but i was reasonably happy with these... 40D, 100-400L, 1/500 @ f/9...

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~ Rocky
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  • rontront Registered Users Posts: 1,473 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2010
    They are both nice Rocky with very nice detail of the head in both of them. Overall though, I like the first photo much better as there is also nice detail in the wings and tail feathers. At least on my monitor, I don't see much detail in the wings on the second photo.
    Again though, the detail of the heads in both shots is just great! I also really like the composition.

    Ron
    "The question is not what you look at, but what you see". Henry David Thoreau

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  • squirl033squirl033 Registered Users Posts: 1,230 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2010
    ront wrote:
    They are both nice Rocky with very nice detail of the head in both of them. Overall though, I like the first photo much better as there is also nice detail in the wings and tail feathers. At least on my monitor, I don't see much detail in the wings on the second photo.
    Again though, the detail of the heads in both shots is just great! I also really like the composition.

    Ron

    thanks, Ron... i agree about the wing detail. the light was pretty flat, and once the eagle leveled out, there wasn't much light under his wings to work with, and i didn't want to screw it up by trying to pull too much out of the shadows...
    ~ Rocky
    "Out where the rivers like to run, I stand alone, and take back something worth remembering..."
    Three Dog Night

    www.northwestnaturalimagery.com
  • hTrhTr Registered Users Posts: 361 Major grins
    edited January 10, 2010
    Pretty Set Rocky!!!clap.gif
    gary
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited January 12, 2010
    Good images and nice work on a very difficult exposure.
    Harry
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    How many photographers does it take to change a light bulb? 50. One to change the bulb, and forty-nine to say, "I could have done that better!"
  • fool4thecityfool4thecity Registered Users Posts: 632 Major grins
    edited January 13, 2010
    Beautiful shots!mwink.gif
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