Motif: Bald Eagles

Posted by Darlene Boucher on Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:14 pm

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Canon 1Ds, 1/200 @ f/6.4, ISO 200, 600 lens

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by ajhand on Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:30 pm

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Interesting rendition. The blurred background bleeding into the birds and perch makes it look like an idealized painting. A bit more separation between the birds would make it even stronger.

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by Bill Whala on Thu Apr 01, 2004 8:35 pm

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This is a nice image, Darlene. I really like the poses of the eagles.

I'm seeing a soft halo around the birds. It looks like what would happen if the blue background was selected with the Magic Wand, a Gaussian Blur was applied, and some areas of the birds and tree got softened along with it.

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by AlexC on Thu Apr 01, 2004 9:51 pm

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Excellent exposure for the strong light present, Bill hit the nail in the head as to the large soft Halo, nice colors as well!!, Congrats!!

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by Safariguy on Thu Apr 01, 2004 11:12 pm

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I like the capture, but I find the halo (especially around the top bird) to be too distracting....

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by Juli Wilcox on Sat Apr 03, 2004 12:31 am

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Hi Darlene---this is a very nice photo with two distinguished birds. I like the apparent sharpness of the eye in the rear bird and beak in the near bird. There seems to be quite a bit of gray in the image, and I would suggest color balancing the image and possibly increasing the color temperature or adjusting the white balance very slightly.

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