Theme: Bald eagle banking in snowstorm

[D. Robert Franz]

Falling snow and birds in flight can be difficult. Captured this image on one of my Alaska eagle tours a few years back. Keeping my single focus point on the head where there is lots of contrast allowed the camera to focus correctly. I had a rock wall in my BG fairly close behind the bird so I opened up my 300mm lens to blur out the BG to keep it from competing with my subject.

Image cropped from horizontal capture.

Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Copyright: D. Robert & Lorri Franz
Shutter speed: 1/2500 sec
Aperture: 3.2
Exposure mode: Manual
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 400
Focal length: 300mm

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Dark BG, snow and banking eagle - that's a dream setting, Dale.
Terrific details and exposure. The pose is near perfect - I would have loved it even more with a full vertical bank with the entire tail visible - may be a couple frames before this one?

[annmpacheco]

Every snowstorm should have a gorgeous banking eagle! The fast ss served two purposes here, less snow "blobbiness" and perfect frozen wings. Terrific processing and no noise in that dark BG! sweet.

[gail bisson]

Beautiful color palette and tack sharp. No nits from me!
Perfect comp as well.
Gail

[Glenn Conlan]

Very nice love the BG and the snow, well done

[Lorant Voros]

Outstanding image! Not much to add to the comments above. Congratulations, Robert.

[Steve Kaluski]

Gorgeous Dale, the snow falling really elevates the image!

TFS
Steve

[Gabriela Plesea]

Beautiful, Dale!

Super framing and nice detail on the subject, well exposed, love the BG colours. Great HA and wing position from the eagle:)

Kind regards,

[Joseph Przybyla]

I echo all the previous comments, nice work. Thank you for sharing.

[dankearl]

Excellent for the conditions. I might prefer it better without the snow, but as a winter photo,
it is very well done.

[Tim Harding]

Beautifully captured under the conditions. Tack sharp on the eye and head.