Getting in on the eagle fun

[kdog]

A Hudson River, NY eagle. I've seen them, but this is the first one I've managed to capture. Ya'll have raised the bar pretty high in this forum, but I decided to post this shot anyway because it's pretty good for me.

http://www.jacara.com/photo/eagle_1628.jpg

Critiques are certainly welcome.

[saurora]

Any eagle shot is a shot to be proud of!!! Nice job! I haven't spotted one in my area yet....still looking around for an accessible site. :thumb

[dallas]

A Hudson River, NY eagle. I've seen them, but this is the first one I've managed to capture. Ya'll have raised the bar pretty high in this forum, but I decided to post this shot anyway because it's pretty good for me.

http://www.jacara.com/photo/eagle_1628.jpg

Critiques are certainly welcome.

You have a very, very, beautiful capture. Keep sending in more.....:clap :clap :clap

[kdog]

Any eagle shot is a shot to be proud of!!! Nice job! I haven't spotted one in my area yet....still looking around for an accessible site. :thumb

Thanks Saurora, that's very kind.

-joel

[traunerk]

certainly better than any eagle of mine (and I've tried at least three or four times this year) - glad you finally spotted one - they're great to watch...

regards...Keith

PS - where did you shoot this one from?

[kdog]

You have a very, very, beautiful capture. Keep sending in more.....:clap :clap :clap

Thanks William,
Coming from you, that's high praise indeed. :bow

After seeing your pictures, I won't be happy until I can see the wrinkles on his feet.

-joel

[dallas]

Thanks William,
Coming from you, that's high praise indeed. :bow

After seeing your pictures, I won't be happy until I can see the wrinkles on his feet.

-joel

I appreciate your compliment Joel, and I'll be looking forward to your post when you sends us one with wrinkles on his feet, and a twinkle in his eye. :): :):

[kdog]

certainly better than any eagle of mine (and I've tried at least three or four times this year) - glad you finally spotted one - they're great to watch...

regards...Keith

PS - where did you shoot this one from?
Thanks, Keith!

This was down along the river in Tomkins Cove, about a mile from my home. I spotted him there a week ago and took a bunch of shots then, but discovered later I'd forgotten to insert a memory card. :cry (Yes, I've since disabled no-CF shooting.) I'm definitely going back. :nod

Say, where did you get those great Harrier and Red-Tail shots?

-joel

[Thusie]

Fien eagle shot! Way to go:clap

[kdog]

Fien eagle shot! Way to go:clap

Thank you, Thusie. :andy

[Harryb]

Good eagle capture. They are real tough to expose for. You have a bit of a blowout on the eagle's head. Still a fine capture.

[Rohirrim]

Nice Job, Kdog. Nice in flight shot.

[kdog]

Good eagle capture. They are real tough to expose for. You have a bit of a blowout on the eagle's head. Still a fine capture.

Thanks, Harry. Yes, the exposure is a real dilemma as I've discovered. To much, and you blow out the head. Too little, and the black body loses the detail. I used EC +1.0 on this shot because I figured I was shooting a black bird against a bright sky. I guess next time I'll just shoot 'er neutral. It's probably better to preserve the white head detail I suppose.

-joel

[kdog]

Nice Job, Kdog. Nice in flight shot.
Thank you, Steve. I'm truly honored to have all the big-boys weighing in.

I took another run at the processing on the shot, and dialed back the exposure a full stop. I didn't noise filter this one, so didn't lose any detail, but now the background is noisy. It's only ISO400, so I'm don't know what the issue is there.

http://www.jacara.com/photo/eagle_1628.1.jpg

[Rohirrim]

Looks like you've recovered some of the highlights, but if they are completley blown out at the time of exposure you probably can't recover all of them. Still a very nice capture though.

For the noise you might try one or more of the following:

If your in RGB run the noise filter on only the channel (s) that have the moist noise in them
Better yet if your in LAB mode run the noise filter on the a and or b channel
Also if you do a selective sharpening on the bird you won't increase the effects that sharpening has on the blue sky
You could also select the sky only and do a Gaussian Blur on it
Experiment a bit. Each image often requires a differant approach.Hope that made sense.

[kdog]

Steve, that all made a LOT of sense. Great tips.

Thank you very much.

-joel

[kdog]

Steve,

Here's a version with selective sharpening, per your tutorial. Yours is the first tutorial with layers that has actually worked for me. Very well done. I've got a lot to learn, but this is very encouraging. Thanks so much.

-joel

http://www.jacara.com/photo/eagle_1628.2.jpg

[traunerk]

The harrier was on the top of the landfill at croton point. The red tail was just off the road near my office in short hills, new jersey. You takes em where you can:rofl

regards...keith

Thanks, Keith!

This was down along the river in Tomkins Cove, about a mile from my home. I spotted him there a week ago and took a bunch of shots then, but discovered later I'd forgotten to insert a memory card. :cry (Yes, I've since disabled no-CF shooting.) I'm definitely going back. :nod

Say, where did you get those great Harrier and Red-Tail shots?

-joel

[Rohirrim]

Steve,

Here's a version with selective sharpening, per your tutorial. Yours is the first tutorial with layers that has actually worked for me. Very well done. I've got a lot to learn, but this is very encouraging. Thanks so much.

-joel



Thats cool. Glad it worked for you. The image looks great too!

[Osprey Whisperer]

Well done Joel. :thumb

[kdog]

Well done Joel. :thumb

Thank you, sir! :D