Bald Eagles - The Attack

[Matt Shetzer]

Here is another Eagle photo (certainly my passion as it's turning into my biggest gallery rapidly)

The Attack. A pair of Bald Eagles battle for a left over salmon on the Chilkat river in Haines, Alaska

Nikon d300, 500mm f/4, 1/1250 sec at f 5.6, ISO 400

Thanks for the critique !

Matt Shetzer
Shetzers Photography

[Tom Redd]

Matt, I am jealous! I would love a shot of this quality and action. Beautiful!

[Matthew Studebaker]

Amazing image Matt. I decided last night actually that I need to get to Chikat sometime soon. This year hopefully. Amazing interaction in this shot, and wonderful rare light for that part of the world.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent pose and interaction with great sharpness and details.

[Randy Stout]

Matt:

Tremendous interaction here. DOF quite effective, despite f/stop

The talons on the right bird are great.

Normally I would say it is framed a bit tight, but the interaction is so strong that your attention is drawn to the center.

Well done,

Cheers

Randy

[Johan Kruger]

wow i love your photo, brilliant moment captured. Would have been nice to see the rhs bird's eye clearly, but that doesnt make this any less awesome.

[Joerg Rockenberger]

Wow. What stunning action and well captured on top of it. Congrats, JR

[Vivaldo Damilano]

You don't often see such excellent interection, well done on this.... superb stuff TFS

[Pieter de Waal]

Excellent action captured with great exposure and detail. Eagles stand out well against the BG.TFS

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent action, and just love the intensity of the left eagle. Overall, nice and sharp, and I feel the comp is fine as is. Im sure you have a whole series of this fight as you pressed the shutter.

[Arsdel Fluesmeier]

A great action shot Matt. Very sharp, well done.

[Daniel Bailey]

Ubelievable action!!!! Super crisp!!!! I took would like to have seen the eye on the right bird but that is being extremely picky! This would look great over somone's mantle...

[George Cottay]

Another wow. Even the background works with the wading birds providing balance to the aerial action.

[Norm Dulak]

Matt, this is absolutely stunning. What amazing intensity and action!

[David Pugsley]

Tremendous action! If I was to be overly picky I'd like to see a bit more room around the birds and an eye of the right bird, but I suspect you weren't able to shout direction to them. :)

[Matt Shetzer]

Thanks for all the positive comments.

I wish I was able to get the eyes of the second eagle as well.

That's how I had is scripted, but one of the eagles didn't cooperate.

Matt Shetzer

[Ofer Levy]

Mind blowing stuff!

[Doug Brown]

Not much to add at this point. Awesome image!

[Kiran Poonacha]

Superb momemt captured, great action and loved that pop acheived here...

[Charles Scheffold]

Incredible Bald Eagle action shot!! Keep em coming!

Charles

[Art Kornienko]

If I had to find something to critique, it would be that the calmness of the birds in the left foreground clash with the dramatic action of the fighting eagles, hence, having the foreground birds out of the shot would have made it even better for me. Other than that quite stunning action, sharpness. I too am jealous.

[Harshad Barve]

Another killer shot Matt
TFS