Bald Eagle Flight and snow covered trees

[gail bisson]

Canon 1DX
600mm II
ISO 800
SS 1/2500@f8
Taken in Cape Breton,NS
PP: Crop ~60% FF, NR to BG, levels, decreased magenta cast by -1, DE at 3% on eagle and USP to JPEG
Comments and critiques always learned from and appreciated with thanks,
Gail

[Joseph Przybyla]

Beautiful eagle, nicely done. Great detail and color.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Gail, good flight pose with the raised wings, and you certainly know how to expose these guys well enough - both blacks and whites showing good detail. I like that we can distinquish that the BG are pin/fir trees covered in snow.

[vishaljadhav]

The head turn on this flight does the trick for me in here, its truly special
Exposure is lovely and the details on the whites are lovely, interesting looking BG

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Sweet pose and exposure, Gail. Love the head turn.
Hope you don't mind me being honest: although the bg gives a great sense of the place/environment, the blobs of snow pull my eye away. I'd have shot wide open or f6.3 here. Of course, this is very subjective and debatable, but just my honest opinion.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I love the BG habitat here (and I appreciate Sid's constructive honesty...that's what BPN is about). The subject looks pretty good too!

[Richard Unsworth]

I also love to see captures that show habitat as one would see
the timing here was perfect as is the whole image
continuing to achieve the highest standards here Gail

[gail bisson]

Hope you don't mind me being honest: although the bg gives a great sense of the place/environment, the blobs of snow pull my eye away. I'd have shot wide open or f6.3 here. Of course, this is very subjective and debatable, but just my honest opinion.

I do not mind at all- that is why I post on BPN. To get honest feedback.
Truth be told, I agree with you and posted the image to see if others minded the busy BG.
I may play with the BG to see if I can minimize the impact but still retain the tree and snow vision.

[John Robinson]

Great someone appreciates back gound info. Great stuff !!
Love it !! Maybe a teeny bit off the top ?
Cheers
JR

[Grace Scalzo]

Gail, Here's my take on the background. I love it, but, the tree tops keep attracting my eye away from the bird...no idea why. When I do a browser scroll and eliminate them, problem solved. I think that the image has great winter feel to it.

[David Salem]

This one really has a great sense of speed to it. I like the Eagles pose, wing position and the cracked open beak. The natural BG looks good to me but I feel the same as Grace about the tree tops. Nice work.

[dankearl]

I really like what you were going for Gail and don't mind the OP.
I just lightened, blurred the BG some more and cropped at bit.
Not sure if it is an improvement but tried anyway, hope you don't mind….
Tough one, too much detail and it overwhelms, too little and you are not sure what the BG is?

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[arash_hazeghi]

very cool, I really like this