Originally Posted by
arash_hazeghi
I agree it has nothing to do with cropping as Dan said
I think the main issues are the following in severity
soft focus : focus did not quite lock on the eagle in any of these shots, the RAW is soft and sharpening will just aggravate the noise.
slow ss: 1/1000 sec is too slow for most of these and BIF in general, the bird will be soft from motion blur. I recommend at least 1/1600 sec.
raising of the shadows: the light angle was not good, (back lit ans side lit) casting very deep shadows, these areas have no detail and will looks very noisy as you raise the exposure
With careful processing you can improve all of these a bit but at the end of the day they won't be keepers unfortunately because of poor RAW quality.
hope this helps