Bald Eagle - Juvi

[Troy Lim]

Trying to rescue the details on the feet without looking too fake. To get the exposure good enough to get details on the dark feather, need to compensate, but that would clip the highlights.
Is there a better way to do this? I refused to use beamer on them. Perhaps +2/3EV?

Manual
Exposure: 0.002 sec (1/640)
Aperture: f/8.0
Focal Length: 700 mm
ISO Speed: 500
Exposure Bias: +1 EV
Flash: No Flash

[Harshad Barve]

lovely pose and nice BG too ,
TFS

[Don Lacy]

Hi Troy, I used curves and a layer mask to lighten some of the feather detail but in this light you would need fill flash to even out the tones in the shadow area.

[Troy Lim]

Hi Troy, I used curves and a layer mask to lighten some of the feather detail but in this light you would need fill flash to even out the tones in the shadow area.

Thank you Don, looks better than mine.
I refused to use beamer on them, besides there were other photographers there.

[Troy Lim]

lovely pose and nice BG too ,
TFS

Thank you Harshad.

[Don Lacy]

Thank you Don, looks better than mine.
I refused to use beamer on them, besides there were other photographers there.

That is you prerogative but I have yet to see any evidence that using flash especially fill flash in daylight harms birds or any other subject.

[Troy Lim]

That is you prerogative but I have yet to see any evidence that using flash especially fill flash in daylight harms birds or any other subject.

Maybe I will give it a shot next time when there are less photographers around.
Thank you for the suggestion.

[Lorant Voros]

Nice pose, perch and clear blue BG. Pretty sweet image.

Lorant

[Stu Bowie]

Good looking eagle Troy, and overall nice and sharp. I would experiment with more EC, as its easier to recover highlights than bring out detail in shadows. You will be surprised how much more detail you will get, and not really blowing any highlights.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Good find, interesting pose and sharpness looks good, too. I would selectively tone down the feet using curves and/or highlight recovery. I would also desaturate the sky a bit, it looks almost a bit purple on my monitor.

[Troy Lim]

Thanks guys. Stuart, EC means?:confused:
Axel, I will re-edit this shot tonight. Thank you so much.