Eagles on the Mississippi

[dlmichel]

http://davesshutter.com/images/Eagle-BPN.jpg

The Bald Eagle is such a majestic bird. There were 50-60 last weekend by dam 14 on the Mississippi and this is my favorite with the afternoon sun highlighting from underneath.

Canon 5DMII 500mm w/1.4 TC - 1/1000s f/7.1 - ISO 200 - +1/3 stop compensation

[Alfred Forns]

Sure has nice light Dave !!!! Whites look great and lots of shadow detail, excellent pose and well framed !!! I like it alot !!!

[Tony Whitehead]

Nice light and sky - exp looks good to protect the highlights. Good detail under the lower wing but you may be able to pull a bit more from the upper one with Shadows/Highlights or a selective curves adjustment. Sharpening halos on the dark edges are a bit prominent but an impressive pose of an impressive bird.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Pose and BG look good. The shadows are underexposed and the BG looks a bit noisy. Keep them coming!

[dlmichel]

Updated to bring out detail in the upper wing and did selective sharpening to reduse noise in the background. Thanks for the feedback.
http://davesshutter.com/images/Eagle-3.jpg

[Arthur Morris]

Hi Dave, The repost is much less contrasty than the ORIG post which is a big improvement. I like the angled COMP and wish only that the head were turned a bit more towards us.