Here is another Eagle photo (certainly my passion as it's turning into my biggest gallery rapidly)
The Attack. A pair of Bald Eagles battle for a left over salmon on the Chilkat river in Haines, Alaska
Nikon d300, 500mm f/4, 1/1250 sec at f 5.6, ISO 400
Thanks for the critique !
Matt Shetzer
Shetzers Photography
02-24-2011, 09:36 AM
Tom Redd
Matt, I am jealous! I would love a shot of this quality and action. Beautiful!
02-24-2011, 10:11 AM
Matthew Studebaker
Amazing image Matt. I decided last night actually that I need to get to Chikat sometime soon. This year hopefully. Amazing interaction in this shot, and wonderful rare light for that part of the world.
02-24-2011, 10:31 AM
arash_hazeghi
excellent pose and interaction with great sharpness and details.
Normally I would say it is framed a bit tight, but the interaction is so strong that your attention is drawn to the center.
Well done,
Cheers
Randy
02-24-2011, 11:44 AM
Johan Kruger
wow i love your photo, brilliant moment captured. Would have been nice to see the rhs bird's eye clearly, but that doesnt make this any less awesome.
02-24-2011, 12:23 PM
Joerg Rockenberger
Wow. What stunning action and well captured on top of it. Congrats, JR
02-24-2011, 12:30 PM
Vivaldo Damilano
You don't often see such excellent interection, well done on this.... superb stuff TFS:cheers::cheers:
02-24-2011, 12:49 PM
Pieter de Waal
Excellent action captured with great exposure and detail. Eagles stand out well against the BG.TFS
02-24-2011, 01:13 PM
Stu Bowie
Excellent action, and just love the intensity of the left eagle. Overall, nice and sharp, and I feel the comp is fine as is. Im sure you have a whole series of this fight as you pressed the shutter.:w3
02-24-2011, 01:21 PM
Arsdel Fluesmeier
A great action shot Matt. Very sharp, well done.
02-24-2011, 02:37 PM
Daniel Bailey
Ubelievable action!!!! Super crisp!!!! I took would like to have seen the eye on the right bird but that is being extremely picky! This would look great over somone's mantle...
02-24-2011, 03:15 PM
George Cottay
Another wow. Even the background works with the wading birds providing balance to the aerial action.
02-24-2011, 04:19 PM
Norm Dulak
Matt, this is absolutely stunning. What amazing intensity and action!
02-24-2011, 04:24 PM
David Pugsley
Tremendous action! If I was to be overly picky I'd like to see a bit more room around the birds and an eye of the right bird, but I suspect you weren't able to shout direction to them. :)
02-24-2011, 07:57 PM
Matt Shetzer
Thanks for all the positive comments.
I wish I was able to get the eyes of the second eagle as well.
That's how I had is scripted, but one of the eagles didn't cooperate.
Matt Shetzer
02-24-2011, 11:41 PM
Ofer Levy
Mind blowing stuff! :cheers:
02-25-2011, 09:36 AM
Doug Brown
Not much to add at this point. Awesome image!
02-26-2011, 01:47 AM
Kiran Poonacha
Superb momemt captured, great action and loved that pop acheived here...
02-27-2011, 07:49 AM
Charles Scheffold
Incredible Bald Eagle action shot!! Keep em coming!
Charles
02-27-2011, 10:52 AM
Art Kornienko
If I had to find something to critique, it would be that the calmness of the birds in the left foreground clash with the dramatic action of the fighting eagles, hence, having the foreground birds out of the shot would have made it even better for me. Other than that quite stunning action, sharpness. I too am jealous.