This was taken very late in the afternoon, sun was just about setting, hand held on car window, pre-digital days, Canon EOS 1V, Kodak Ektachrome film 64 ASA, scanned Nikon Coolscan 2000ED, Taken in Kgaligadi Trans frontier Park in North Western Cape Province South Africa.
Welcome to BPN, Dr Loukie! You did an excellent job getting a low angle, and creating eye contact with your subject. The composition is pleasing, maybe take a little off the bottom and add some to the top. The only real drawback to this image is that it's more than one full stop underexposed.
The tonality of your BG, FG, and the water color most likely did a number on your camera's meter.
The subject is one of my favorite eagles. The pose and angle are great but as Blake pointed out there are problems with the image. I dont think its a meter problem but really more of contrast. Slide film was so contrasty that you were forced to expose for the highlights but, unlike todays digital images, the shadows blocked up easily, even more so when scanned. So this scenes contrast would have been better suited to print film or really digital capture :)
Thank you for the very appropriate comments, I have worked it afterwards with photo shop, but still prefer the darker more dramatic version, and added there was the emotional involvement, it was late, we had to get back to camp before 6 pm, we were still about 20 km from camp, so I had to put foot on the gas, unfortunately a group from the camp came round a bend and the warden had to give me a speeding ticket, so as I always say photographers when they see their photo evokes an emotion, others see it as a record of a subject, sorry to involve you in the tears etc, regards Loukie
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