This is another image from eagle-land Langkawi. This is a juvenile White-bellied Sea Eagle cruising in light drizzle, which hopefully adds a bit of mood. :)
Sweet wingspread Jay and a great-looking raptor.
Maybe a bit more saturation in the BG might warm the shot and perhaps bring out the rain drops a bit more as they are an interesting element of the comp.
Killer topside view and SH. What a wingspread. BKGR looked strangely spotted but not color noise. I lost the tree trunk behind the bird with some 70% clone stamping and some patch tooling. Selected the BKGR and ran two .4 pixel Gaussian blurs on it. At high mag. the spotting disappeared... Go figure.
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Duh! I just realized that the spots were the rain. Me bad. Sorry.
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Ah yes, those spots are rain. It's so light that it appears like noise.. :)
I don't quite get Paul's suggestion on how to bring out the rain drops though. Tried raising saturation but don't seem to help much.
Juvie Eagle in Rain
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