Tawny Eagle.

[Haim Ziv]

D2x 500mm 1/1250 f5.6 ISO200
Nakuro Lake Kenya, took it from safari car.

Thank you for looking.
All critique will be welcome.

[Doug Brown]

Great photo Haim! Equal parts gruesome and awesome.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Excellent capture Haim with awesome detail and eye contact and great exposure. Fine work !!!!!

[Arthur Morris]

Very well done and technically perfect. What are the reflections behind the bird from? COMP perfect. Bit of bloody flesh on the bill perfect. One suggestion (that I have been making a bundh lately, but nobody listens...): make a QM of the pupil and darken it a bit and then make a QM of the iris and lighten that a bit. Seems like nothing but the results can be dramatic.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great angle, eye contact and quite graphic. Was this some kind of duck? I'm also wondering about the reflection in the BG.

[Fabs Forns]

FAntastic action, quite impressive. I'd probably go back a couple of points in the red saturation. Congratulations!

[Arthur Morris]

Great angle, eye contact and quite graphic. Was this some kind of duck? I'm also wondering about the reflection in the BG.

Lake Nakuru and long pink legs = flamingo. :)

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Lake Nakuru and long pink legs = flamingo. :)

Right, the legs are a 'bit' long for a duck. :)

[Alfred Forns]

One fine image Haim Love it as presented Would give Artie's suggestion a try Little things make the difference !!!!

[Haim Ziv]

Very well done and technically perfect. What are the reflections behind the bird from? COMP perfect. Bit of bloody flesh on the bill perfect. One suggestion (that I have been making a bundh lately, but nobody listens...): make a QM of the pupil and darken it a bit and then make a QM of the iris and lighten that a bit. Seems like nothing but the results can be dramatic.

Thank you all very much.
Yes it's Flamingo and the reflection are many of them standing in side the water.
Sorry Artie, what is QM ? ... may be quick mask? I'm not very good with PS.
Once more thank you.

[Chris van Rooyen]

Great capture Haim - composition, sharpness and "special moment". I support Artie's suggestion of working on the eye, I do it on most of my images and it has a great effect IMO.

BTW, I think it is a Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis (?).

[Arthur Morris]

Thank you all very much. Yes it's Flamingo and the reflection are many of them standing in side the water. Sorry Artie, what is QM ? ... may be quick mask? I'm not very good with PS.
Once more thank you.

L'chaim Haim, YAW. Yes, a QM is a Quick Mask. I could never understand masking at all until Robert O'Toole taught me to use Quick Masks. You can find the basics of QMing by doing a search in the Bulletin Archive or purcahse a copy of Robert's APTATS I CD with advanced techniques such as wing tip repair. Hint once you have created a QM of the pupil or the iris: hit Control M to bring up the curves box on the layer. Drag the curve up to lighten, down to darken.

[Haim Ziv]

L'chaim Haim, YAW. Yes, a QM is a Quick Mask. I could never understand masking at all until Robert O'Toole taught me to use Quick Masks. You can find the basics of QMing by doing a search in the Bulletin Archive or purcahse a copy of Robert's APTATS I CD with advanced techniques such as wing tip repair. Hint once you have created a QM of the pupil or the iris: hit Control M to bring up the curves box on the layer. Drag the curve up to lighten, down to darken.

Thank you very very much.

[Sharna Lee]

Haim,
Very nice image. I like the fact that you can see every detail in the bird and his/her eye. Also that is one messy meal ;)
good job on capturing that awesome action.

Sharna

[Tassilo Seeger]

..... BTW, I think it is a Steppe Eagle Aquila nipalensis (?).

Hi Chris,
to distinguish between Steppe and Tawny Eagle you should look at the gape length:
in Tawny the gape extends only to the middle of the eye,
in Steppe (depending on the subspecies) the gape is longer (until behind the eye).
So I think Haim is correct with Tawny.

Cheers
Tassilo