"Not here bud." One bald eagle bites another.

[Jim Coda]

Canon 70-200mm f/2.8L IS lens at 200mm with EOS 1DsM3. ISO 500. Evaluative metering +2/3 stop. 1/1000 sec. at f/2.8.

Homer, Alaska. March 2008.

C and C welcomed.

Jim Coda
www.jimcoda.com

[Colin Knight]

Hi Jim!

Great action in this one. The eagles on each side really add a lot to the comp.

Was this a heavy crop?

Colin

[Danny J Brown]

Hey Jim: This is about as iconic of an eagle photo as I've seen. I'm going to have to pull the one I just posted.:( Really, this is a fantastic shot and definitely one I expect to see published. Well done.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great scene, not only two of them are fighting but they also have audience from the sides. Very nice.

[peter delaney]

beautiful image .

well done

peter

[Morkel Erasmus]

this is a superb interaction shot!! well done...
I'm also curious to know if it's a large crop as some IQ seems missing?
if anything I might tone down the perch and greens...

[Mark Theriot]

Awesome! Love the expression on the flanking two!

Mark

[Callie de Wet]

Very nice family interaction. I suddenly wonder how fares the mother-in-law? Sharpening is a bit evident on my monitor as a slight halo round the birds.

[Jim Coda]

Hi all,

Thanks for the comments. With respect to cropping, I did crop it, but not so that the perspective changed. 200mm was a little short for the situation. I don't see any halo. I used PK Sharpener and backed off a bit on output sharpening. The eyes of the two outside birds were sharpened as a separate step. As to the perch and greens, I did spend some time mulling that over in processing and finally went with it this way. As I recall, it was overcast and damp and colors looked rich.

Jim Coda
www.jimcoda.com

[Jim Fenton]

It is definitely a neat photo with the interaction which is taking place.

Id does look to have a rather heavy cyan cast to it on my monitor.

[Ted Willcox]

Hi Jim
Great Image. There is a cyan cast, remove it, and the image will be even better.
Ted

[arash_hazeghi]

Very beautiful interaction shot! BG is nice too, agree with color cast needing to be removed. TFS

[Jim Coda]

Hi,

Regarding the cyan color cast comments, I don't see it on my monitor. I just opened the image in PS3, assigned it an sRGB profile, opened a hue/saturation layer, and moved the saturation slider all the way to +100 and got some magenta and a small amount of blue. No cyan. Given that it was a cloudy, overcast day, this is not unusual and not something I would color correct. However, I recognize that color correction is subjective.

Cheers!

Jim Coda
www.jimcoda.com