Bald Eagle

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Photographed at Conowingo last month. There were thin clouds and it is cropped from horizontal.

http://www.pbase.com/axelhi/image/119135857/original.jpg

1D3, 500f4, 1.4x, 1/1600s, f/8, EC +0.33, ISO 400

[Dave Blinder]

Great exposure Axel, and fine detail looks dead on. Crop looks good to me.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great "classic" flight pose, I like the diagonal placement in the frame a lot.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Axel...liked the crop a lot. And as usual, you have done a very good job with the blacks and whites of such a high-contrast bird. I would love to get one image like this once.

[Bill Dix]

Axel - Nicely captured BEagle. I love the vertical composition with the eye dead-center. Well exposed for a tough subject. Were it mine I might have been tempted to try opening up the underwing detail just a tad, but that may be my monitor.

[Mital Patel]

fantastic capture Axel.
My personal choice always when looking bird from bottom i love to see underwing details which you have already but enhancing a bit more would give it extra mile.

[Ofer Levy]

Lovely pose and sharp! Here is a repost with a slightly different composition and a slight boost in colours and contrast. You mention some thin clouds but it looks like light was quite nice.

[closplagra]

Excellent ! I like it very much
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[Axel Hildebrandt]

Thanks for taking the time, Ofer! The saturation boost in the dark plumage looks good, the tail is a bit too reddish for my taste. If the birds don't look too messy this is pretty much white.

[Harshad Barve]

Yet another excellent image Axel
TFS

[Paul Lagasi]

Way to go Axel...I never get tired of eagles...like the diagonal crop, the bird is sharp from from to back..eagles always have the most evil of looks..TFS

[Mital Patel]

Ofer nice repost with enhanced shadows but somehow the halos came up really visible arround bird.

Axel here is what i just wished to not disturb the tail and whites but just a thin light in wing pattern. hope you'll like that.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Thanks, Mital! Looks good here. I think I did brighten the underwings but will try to do it a little more in the TIF file.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Hey Axel! love the pose and I prefer the original or Mital's repost. Your image really conveys the sheer power and awe of this species. Well done fellas. :)