Tawny Eagle Takeoff

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Captured this image of what I think might be a juvenile in Botswana a month ago. A lifer for me. C&C welcome.

D500, Sigma 150-600mm C @ 360mm, 1/1600s, f 6.3, hh, ISO 2500.

Geoffrey




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[Dorian Anderson]

Really nice pose and the perch to match. Pretty good result for ISO 2500.

[John Mack]

Like the perch and the take off pose. Image quality looks good for the high ISO.

[gail bisson]

I love the image composition with that long textured branch.
Nice take off pose.Love the wing extension. Sharp.
I see a hint of blue in the sky and if you wanted, you could pull a bit more blue out of the sky by doing the following; In LR, go to luminance in the HSL panel and REDUCE (yes, you read that properly!) the blues by a few points. It will do wonders. Try it!
I think this needs a tweak in levels as well in photoshop. Midtones could use a bit of pop.
Very nice frame Geoffrey,
Gail

[Geoffrey Montagu]

I love the image composition with that long textured branch.
Nice take off pose.Love the wing extension. Sharp.
I see a hint of blue in the sky and if you wanted, you could pull a bit more blue out of the sky by doing the following; In LR, go to luminance in the HSL panel and REDUCE (yes, you read that properly!) the blues by a few points. It will do wonders. Try it!
I think this needs a tweak in levels as well in photoshop. Midtones could use a bit of pop.
Very nice frame Geoffrey,
Gail

Thanks Gail. I wasn't sure about pulling a bit more blue in the sky out or not. I have Lightroom, but since the image was already loaded in CS6 I thought why not use Color Range, adjustment layer HS. I also went to levels and adjusted the mid tones. WDYT?

Geoffrey

[John Whaley]

Edited version definitely better. Like the take off pose and the perch. I have never seen a Tawny Eagle before so TFS.

[Geoffrey Montagu]

Thanks everyone.

Geoffrey




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[Geoffrey Montagu]

A correction must be made here. This is not a Tawny Eagle, but a Juvenile Bateleur Eagle with the distinctive gray facial skin and bill structure. Would one of the moderators please change the title to: Juvenile Bateleur Eagle.

Thanks to Bill, I remembered we had both agreed this was a juvenile, but at the time we were not a 100% sure what type. Yes indeed this is a juvenile Bateleur Eagle.

Thanks,

Geoffrey




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