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Geoffrey Montagu
03-09-2018, 05:38 PM
Captured this image of what I think might be a juvenile in Botswana a month ago. A lifer for me. C&C welcome.

D500, Sigma 150-600mm C @ 360mm, 1/1600s, f 6.3, hh, ISO 2500.

Geoffrey




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Dorian Anderson
03-09-2018, 10:00 PM
Really nice pose and the perch to match. Pretty good result for ISO 2500.
John Mack
03-10-2018, 07:00 AM
Like the perch and the take off pose. Image quality looks good for the high ISO.
gail bisson
03-10-2018, 07:41 AM
I love the image composition with that long textured branch.
Nice take off pose.Love the wing extension. Sharp.
I see a hint of blue in the sky and if you wanted, you could pull a bit more blue out of the sky by doing the following; In LR, go to luminance in the HSL panel and REDUCE (yes, you read that properly!) the blues by a few points. It will do wonders. Try it!
I think this needs a tweak in levels as well in photoshop. Midtones could use a bit of pop.
Very nice frame Geoffrey,
Gail
Geoffrey Montagu
03-10-2018, 11:53 AM
I love the image composition with that long textured branch.
Nice take off pose.Love the wing extension. Sharp.
I see a hint of blue in the sky and if you wanted, you could pull a bit more blue out of the sky by doing the following; In LR, go to luminance in the HSL panel and REDUCE (yes, you read that properly!) the blues by a few points. It will do wonders. Try it!
I think this needs a tweak in levels as well in photoshop. Midtones could use a bit of pop.
Very nice frame Geoffrey,
Gail

Thanks Gail. I wasn't sure about pulling a bit more blue in the sky out or not. I have Lightroom, but since the image was already loaded in CS6 I thought why not use Color Range, adjustment layer HS. I also went to levels and adjusted the mid tones. WDYT?

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John Whaley
03-11-2018, 11:39 AM
Edited version definitely better. Like the take off pose and the perch. I have never seen a Tawny Eagle before so TFS.
Geoffrey Montagu
03-11-2018, 09:37 PM
Thanks everyone.

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Geoffrey Montagu
03-13-2018, 01:29 PM
A correction must be made here. This is not a Tawny Eagle, but a Juvenile Bateleur Eagle with the distinctive gray facial skin and bill structure. Would one of the moderators please change the title to: Juvenile Bateleur Eagle.

Thanks to Bill, I remembered we had both agreed this was a juvenile, but at the time we were not a 100% sure what type. Yes indeed this is a juvenile Bateleur Eagle.

Thanks,

Geoffrey




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