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    Canon 7D, 500mm f/4L, 1/1250" @ f/4, ISO 400.

    Adult female as she brought another stick back to their ever growing nest. That is not a processing halo around her...I was fighting hit and miss sunshine and a thin layer of clouds as weather system moved out. Rotated 10 degrees clockwise and had to push the recovery slider to 100% on most of the images from this day.

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    These birds look like they are made out of wax...I like the detail and exposure..Underneath not ideal but it will do till the next one!

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    love these birds, same family as our African Fish Eagle. lovely pose and exposure here, I would probably sharpen the head some more?
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    Nice pose and exposure - though it may benefit from being a bit lighter. Agree with more sharpening. But more importantly I see a pretty huge halo(?) on the back of the bird. Halo may not be the right word as it has a well defined edge to the background and extends from roughly the bird's eye to not quite before teh end of the tail feathers...

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    Thank you everyone. The sharpness looks fine for my taste..although I did back off on my sharpening filter as of late and I'm now resizing the images for web display differently because I kept seeing halos around the subject.

    JR...are you sure you're not seeing the thin white clouds behind the Eagle? Like I stated...I was dealing with filtered light and a thin layer of marine clouds and they blew out during the initial capture. Here is a screen capture of the RAW file untouched in ACR with the highlight warning enabled.

    I appreciate the input I receive. I have a lot of limitations photographing this pair of Eagles (shooting distance, time of day (the place they nest is only open 9-5), shooting angle and the area is heavily wooded for the most part)
    Last edited by Duane Noblick; 12-20-2010 at 05:32 AM.

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    Awesome BIF and PP work to recover the whites.

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