Steppe Eagle

[Rohan Kamath]

EOS Canon 40D
Sigma 70-300 APO(Non IS at 263mm)
f/8
1/320 sec
ISO-400
+2 EC
Pattern Metering
Aperture Priority
AWB

Kindly suggest means to improve. Just a beginner and all C&C most welcome. Please be harsh and honest. Appreciate the time. Thanks a lot. :D


-Cheers,
Rohan
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[Thanaboon Jearkjirm]

Love the over pass by pose with good wing and tail span, I also like the HA and the underwing detail too. Your bird seem soft, not sure if this is from motion blur or not. I also see halo around the bird, did you tried to brighten the bird?

[Rohan Kamath]

The softness is probably because the lens is (in the nicest words I can think of) utter crap. Will still try me best to get sharper images in the future.And no I did not brighten the bird. The only PP i have done on this image is sharpen the bird a little. Maybe that caused the halo(??)

-Cheers,
Rohan
Follow birding activity in and around Pune at:- http://groups.google.com/group/punebirds
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Conservation begins at HOME... We CAN make a difference...

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the underwing exposure and look-down pose. Another vote for more sharpening of the bird.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Rohan....excellent underwings exposure. I have seen such halos created by excessive chroma NR during raw conversion. Did you do that? It does not look like sharpening halo to me...but I might be wrong. For sharpening, you should select the bird without selecting the edges( in photoshop) and then sharpen....to prevent halos.