Brand Spanking New....

Jeffro

Well I just recently started my change over to a smugmug account, and registered here today. I thought I may as well jump in and get my feet wet...or drownd:D .

Here is a shot of a Bald Eagle I took today. These guys are not that easy to find in my part of the country, and getting close is even harder. This was taken with my Canon 20D, 70-200 f2.8L with 2x teleconverter......then cropped! I dream of the day I can get this close of a shot without cropping! I hope this went well......

Harryb

Hey Jeff,

Welcome to Dgrin. You're off to a good start with an eagle shot no less. Any eagle shot is a good shot. They are not an easy capture especially with a 70-200.

They are also a very tough exposure with that white head and dark body. You blew out the white head a tad on this shot.

Looking forward to seeing more of your shots.

Jeffro

Harryb wrote:

Hey Jeff,

Welcome to Dgrin. You're off to a good start with an eagle shot no less. Any eagle shot is a good shot. They are not an easy capture especially with a 70-200.

They are also a very tough exposure with that white head and dark body. You blew out the white head a tad on this shot.

Looking forward to seeing more of your shots.

Thanks for the reply Harryb,

It's nice to be here. The picture looks worse here than it does on the original. I think some of that is due to the quality loss when I resized it, I'll go bigger next time.

I checked out some of your stuff, very nice.

I hope to have some of my stuff on-line pretty soon, although motocross photography has been my mainstay for the last couple of years.

gluwater

Glad to see another Illinoisan here. Welcome aboard and hope to see more from you. Make sure you check out the Midwest Meetup Thread and subscribe to it, or post a meet you want to set up.

David_S85

What glu said.