Eagle at Decatur Zoo

ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,167 moderator
edited October 12, 2005 in Wildlife
One last image. This creature was rescued and on loan from the Humane Society. It has a damaged wing and cannot fly.
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  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    Very nice Ziggy. Excellent full frame capture of a magnificent bird. I would have knocked the exposure down a tad. Its almost glaring on my monitor.
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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,167 moderator
    edited October 12, 2005
    Right Harry, I can do better. :):


    This is after a curves adjust to hold back the exposure, especially the highlights, and 2 USM adjustments to bring out detail, fine and edge, and then noise reduction to get the file size down without affecting too much of the true detail or dimensional size.
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  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    Lovely shot Ziggy and nice PP work. thumb.gifthumb The head appears just a tad too bright still, may be just me though.
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  • Steve CaviglianoSteve Cavigliano Super Moderators Posts: 3,599 moderator
    edited October 12, 2005
    Rohirrim wrote:
    Lovely shot Ziggy and nice PP work. thumb.gifthumb The head appears just a tad too bright still, may be just me though.
    Ziggy,
    I'm with Steve on this one. It's better, but still too bright IMO. It's a nice shot of this regal looking bird thumb.gifthumb.gif Nice and close too iloveyou.gif


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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited October 12, 2005
    2nd one you've done well with it
    Lots of detail in the body, and have brought it down (exp. wise) well. Really probably can't get much more?
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  • ziggy53ziggy53 Super Moderators Posts: 24,167 moderator
    edited October 12, 2005
    Yep, it's bright. (Too bright)
    Sorry all, I agree.

    Unfortunately, this exposure is too far to the right and if I pull it anymore in software, I don't get anymore detail, so it looks unnatural. I just blew the exposure is all, and it's a JPEG, so there's really no further recovery.

    I live 3 hours away, and it's probably going to be another 2 months before I make that journey, and I won't be going to the zoo. Ah well, there's always next year.

    Thanks for all the comments. They are appreciated.

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