Bald eagle take off

[D. Robert Franz]

I was handholding my 300mm F2.8 in portrait mode on a perched eagle when he took off right at me and I just fired away..

Camera Model: Canon EOS 7D
Firmware: Adobe Photoshop CS4 Windows
Shutter speed: 1/3200 sec
Aperture: 3.5
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 400
Focal length: 300mm

[Holger Leyrer]

In one word: cool
Love the pose and eye contact. BG is great.

[Tiago Caravana]

The eagle was very nice to you putting both wings inside the frame :)

Nice photo, light, detail and BG

[Graeme Cox]

WOW great image…

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent dynamic pose and BG, IQ is not great however. I wonder if it was a large crop or maybe soft focus? TFS