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    Default Bald eagle up close. Worth Keeping?

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    From my eagle tour a few weeks ago.. Hope your not getting sick of them. Here I'm real tight. I know I cut off the wing but I still like the action. Shown basically full frame just a slight crop for image rotation. Worth keeping or delete??

    Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
    Shutter speed: 1/3200 sec
    Aperture: 4
    Exposure mode: Manual
    Flash: Off
    Metering mode: Partial
    ISO: 320
    Focal length: 176mm
    Subject distance: 1.94 m

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    Man, bummer about the cut wing as the action and pose look great. Very sharp, and lots of details in the whites and darks. Hard to say in regards to keep or trash...I have zero eagle images in my files so I'd keep it, but if I had hundreds of keepers I'd be inclined to delete it - especially if I had many other "action" images.

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    Could you some of Robert's APTAT techniques and salvage the clipped wing? If Artie does it so successfully, surely it will work for you.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jim Neely View Post
    Could you some of Robert's APTAT techniques and salvage the clipped wing? If Artie does it so successfully, surely it will work for you.

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    I really have no idea how to do any of that but it may be worth looking into...

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    Awesome image, Robert. That is too bad that the wing got cut-off. I agree, APTAT would be worth looking into. I don't have the skills yet to salvage something like this, but I've seen some here salvage a lot worse, and they end up looking great.

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    Too bad about the left wing. Otherwise it's almost perfect...if a bit more room at the bottom also. If this were mine, would I keep it? Let's say I wouldn't feel too bad if I trash it

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    Looks great...IQ and detail are top class...Such a pity about the clipped wing but thats the way it goes sometimes

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    Personally the cut single wing doesn't work for me. I recall that you do not like cropping but would something along these lines be of consideration? Maybe even take some more from the left side.

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    Grace,

    I like that crop and had thought about that approach.. Image has much better balance.

    I don't necessarily agree about clipped body parts being a fatal flaw. In many many dealings with photo editors, the final end users fo my images, I've had well composed images cropped, cutting off tails, legs etc in order to fit their layout or visual concept. When the editors wish to show action they'll often crop in real tight on the image to emphasize the portrayed action.

    Now my decision in deciding whether to keep the image now is to deternine that after crop it's still of adequate image quality to market. I very seldom crop an image that I market.. On my website nearly every photo is shown uncropped. I have a few in portrait that were originally photographed in the landscape format. With some of the newer high res cameras you can get away with that. If you do show a cropped image and the client who wants it finds the quality will not hold up for their intended use it's a big problem. Makes you look very bad....
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    I agree that a clipped wing is not fatal, to my eye tho, in this case it was just as much about the balance of the image as the clipping. I understand about cropping and the problems that it can cause, so I believe that the decision to keep or not depends on the intended use. I like it enough that if it were mine I'd keep it and see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by D. Robert Franz View Post
    I don't necessarily agree about clipped body parts being a fatal flaw. In many many dealings with photo editors, the final end users fo my images, I've had well composed images cropped, cutting off tails, legs etc in order to fit their layout or visual concept. When the editors wish to show action they'll often crop in real tight on the image to emphasize the portrayed action.
    This is from a photographer with 25+ years of professional experience, multiple nature's best award recipient and one of the top ranked photographer in nature photography pro-tour contests.

    Dale,
    We appreciate your wisdom and thanks for sharing your knowledge.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sid Garige View Post
    This is from a photographer with 25+ years of professional experience, multiple nature's best award recipient and one of the top ranked photographer in nature photography pro-tour contests.

    Dale,
    We appreciate your wisdom and thanks for sharing your knowledge.

    -Sid
    Thanks Sid

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