White Tailed Eagle in Flight


Posted by MarioRomulic on Mon Aug 25, 2003 3:57 pm

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Hi to all!

First of all congratulations for this excellent site and I'm impressed with the quality of the photos.
As I'm a begginer in wild life photography allow me to show one of my latest picture and please comment it.
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The Story:
That morning I was at Nature Park "Kopacki rit" (Croatia, Europe) and I was steering (not believing to my own eyes :shock: ) at cca. 50 eagles (on area of 100 square meters) fighting for the leftover fishes in drowned lake.
One of them was curious who (or what) is "shooting" from my hiding place and a took this picture in that moment.

Technical data:
Canon EOS 10D
1/750 f:8.0
Exp. comp. -2
ISO Speed 200
Lens 600mm/f4 IS
Focal length 840.00 mm
Full frame

Thank you in advance for your comments!

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by Rob Palmer on Mon Aug 25, 2003 4:25 pm
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Beautiful shot Mario, excellent for a first post and all the technicals seem OK to me. The detail is perfect. Thank you for sharing.
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by Dennis Olivero on Mon Aug 25, 2003 4:42 pm
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Excellent first post and welcome to NatureScape.. If you are a "beginner" as you say, I can't wait to see the other end of the learning curve. Really nice job...
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by Sandy Mossberg on Mon Aug 25, 2003 4:52 pm
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Mario, a fine debut on NSN. I like the sharpness of the shot and certainly do not mind the cut wings. The diagonal, corner-to-corner composition is excellent. You might have opened the shadows under the wings by using fill flash. Even now, using Curves or other techniques, you may be able to salvage a fair amount of detail in the shadows.

BTW, using a 600 mm lens and a camera with a 1.6 cropping factor gives 960 mm effective focal length.
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by Mario on Mon Aug 25, 2003 4:58 pm
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Dennis Olivero wrote:Excellent first post and welcome to NatureScape.. If you are a "beginner" as you say, I can't wait to see the other end of the learning curve. Really nice job...
I was thinking beginner in still photography, I much more work in nature as a cameraman, but after I got my new toy (600 mm/4.0 Is) I just can't stop with still!!
 

by Mario on Mon Aug 25, 2003 5:14 pm
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Sandy Mossberg wrote:Mario, a fine debut on NSN. I like the sharpness of the shot and certainly do not mind the cut wings. The diagonal, corner-to-corner composition is excellent. You might have opened the shadows under the wings by using fill flash. Even now, using Curves or other techniques, you may be able to salvage a fair amount of detail in the shadows.

BTW, using a 600 mm lens and a camera with a 1.6 cropping factor gives 960 mm effective focal length.
Sandy,
The shadow on original shot is very nice, unfortunatly I lost them somewhere converting this picture for web. :(


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by Alan Murphy on Mon Aug 25, 2003 6:13 pm
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Great first post Mario,

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by Anthony Medici on Mon Aug 25, 2003 6:25 pm
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This is a great first post. If there was shadow detail on the original and it's not showing up here, you might not have converted the image to sRGB before you posted it. Or you posted it using a Mac and your gamma was set to the Mac standard instead of the PC standard setting.

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by Juli Wilcox on Mon Aug 25, 2003 9:08 pm
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Hello Mario and welcome! As a beginning still photographer, you have done extremely well here. There is a lot of tension in the photo starting with the cooler colors, stern "expression" on the face of the animal and strictly centered diagonal placement of the bird. I think it works well. :)
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by Jim Probst on Mon Aug 25, 2003 9:20 pm
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Mario,

You've captured some great action. The sharpness is excellent! Well done!
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by Greg Downing on Mon Aug 25, 2003 11:55 pm
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Welcome and GREAT first post! A little curves work would bring up more detail under the wings but the composition is perfect!! Is this a crop at all or are you THAT good??
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by Mario on Tue Aug 26, 2003 1:15 am
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Greg Downing wrote:Welcome and GREAT first post! A little curves work would bring up more detail under the wings but the composition is perfect!! Is this a crop at all or are you THAT good??
Hi Greg.

No croping at all, this is a full frame shot! As I sad before, on original shot I have lots of details (you can see each feather!) but I lost them converting this photo for web!
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by Rich S on Tue Aug 26, 2003 8:13 am
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Marvelous post, let alone first post, let alone full frame. Very impressive. Since you've shot this digitally, it should be pretty easy in Photoshop to use curves to recover a bit more detail in the wings even for this post.

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by Jack Frank on Tue Aug 26, 2003 12:14 pm
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