Amazing Grace of the Bald Eagle

[Marina Scarr]

Spent many mornings photographing an eagle pair this season and was rewarded one morning with this landing. Now the eaglets have fledged, and it's time to photograph them in their novice attempts at flying. They are also posing together which will be quite a site if I am blessed enough to witness it.

Canon 40D, 400DO & 1.4 TC
F8, 1/2000sec, ISO 320, manual mode
Gitzo tripod

C & C always welcome and appreciated,

Marina

[Kim Rollins]

Mirina -

Good capture of this mighty bird.

Exposure a bit dark I think. I would suggest kicking the exposure on the bird (except for the head) up about 15% in shadows as shown here -

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent timing for the landing Grace, and superb show of the wings. The comp works well, and congrats on an outstanding image.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great details and landing pose. I would apply some curves to get more details in the shadows and tone down the whites.

[denise ippolito]

Marina, Great action captured-beautiful details, agree w/ curves sugg. Just wanted to say that I love Eagles and I'm looking forward to your images of the attempted flights!!

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Hi Marina,
This is absolutely superb without a doubt!!! Love the wingspread and it is so sharp! More and more people seem to be using that 400mm DO nowadays and are getting outstanding results. Wonderful image from all points. Well done! Cannot wait to see more. :)