Power Dive

[Mike Landwehr]

One of the acrobatic eagles just starting its dive during the Homer IPT last March. They are sure fun to watch! Used a little shadow and highlights, slight yellow saturation for beak and feet, and a bit of Topaz filter for detail. Used QM to eliminate an OOF eagle in the LR corner. Cropped and sharpened. I'm not a fan of square crops, but am having trouble finding a better aspect ratio for this image. C & C appreciated!

1D Mark II N
70-200 f/2.8 II + 1.4x at 280 mm
ISO 400
1/1600 @ f/5.6
handheld

[Phil Vandor]

Waouh Mike, nice shoot ! No matter for the crop.
Phil

[Randy Stout]

Mike:

A very dramatic, intense pose. You were able to tease out lots of detail in the darks while keeping great detail in the whites.

Some shapes of the subject really do fit best in a square crop, and I can't imagine anyone would find this one a static image!

You could try adding a modest amount of free space below, and 1/2 of that to the left side, which would make it a little less square, give him a little more room to fly into, without having too much negative space, but I am perfectly fine with it as posted.

Cheers

Randy

PS: By the way, which Topaz filter did you use?

[Jonathan Ashton]

Amazing shot terrific pose, love the detail in the image, I think the composition is good, the wings going more or less along the diagonal.

[Rod Warnock]

Great impact and great capture !! Mike !! Apology for the square format unnecessary not everything is suited to 3X2.
Very well done.
Best regards
Rod Warnock

[Mike Landwehr]

Randy, thanks for the feedback. The Topaz plug-in I used was Adjust 5. I believe that I used a slight modification (to tone down the effect) of the Detail - Medium preset.

[Mitch Carucci]

Dynamic image! Love the "facial expression".

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Unbelievable pose and the face expression rocks too.

[Jim Crosswell]

Excellent image Mike! I like the pose and expression as well. Crop works for me.

[ramesh anantharaman]

This is a brilliant image with awesome details all over. the exposure is spot on and i love the framing. superb. Is this a part of a series????? Just cant wait for more................

[Riju Bhattacharya]

What a shot Mike!! Very dramatic!