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.
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...
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.