From March Homer trip, 1D4, 500mm, ISO 800, 1/1250, f8. Photoshop: removed some foreground and BG clutter, cropped to about 70% of original. Thanks for looking
I like the pose/wing position, with intense down the barrel stare,distant mountain background.
The right end of the perch is interesting, not so much the left.
I might try a version with a more vertical crop to downplay the mass of the perch, even though it means giving up the right end.
A smaller, more discrete signature line would be less of a distraction in the image.
Gorgeous shot. Agree with Troy about bringing out feather detail; an S&H adjustment would probably work. The bright spots in the BG are a bit distracting to me, but the bird's pose is so powerful I can live with them. As mentioned, the signature is overpowering -- in addition to being too big, its placement in the middle of the lower part of the frame steals the scene from your subject. I would put the signature in the LLC...
Awesome pose - almost challenging you!! I like the width of the image...as an alternative I would propose to crop the sand away at bottom instead of going vertical. This would help with the perch as I find thicker ones such as logs and boulders look good when anchored to the frame edge, and plus you'd retain a bit of the weathered character at right tip of it.
I really like this image. The extra details of the log and surrounding really help this is a landscape.
In the first image,I really liked seeing the sand in the bottom. I feel the log looks like you cut it off by accident in the second. I would also recommend trying to bring a bit more of the grain or contrast out of the wood. It looks as if it has a nice texture to it.
Eagle on Driftwood
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