Surprise Eagle…..

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Larry S.

Larry S.

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While waiting for ospreys on our creek, an eagle made a surprise low level fly-by towards me. The oncoming quartering image looks sharp but the Fx formatting seems wrong. Maybe 16x9? Is the bird cropped too tight? Nikon D850/500PF/f6.3
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I wouldn't place the head in the middle.
Cut more off the right edge and give it more space in front of it.
This gives me more immersion where it will fly and more dynamic.
I wouldn't crop in that far either, with this turbulent background.
Maybe my assessment will help you a little.
However, there are certainly people here with more specialist knowledge of birds in flight.
 
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Larry, the placement of the bird isnt wrong. Can you improve on comp? Perhaps? I would definitely not crop any closer. Without playing around with the crop - I can't really say that I would have changed it. Maybe, maybe not.

But I think what is more important for me is the background which I find distracting - and that means I dont "see" the composition is well as I should.

Btw - beautiful bird and capture actually
 
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Nice photo. Agree with comments up, center placement work good. Edit, for my taste it is to flat a bit. All is in mid tone. A bit vignetting. Softening backgroud and contrast, sharpening on a bird.
 
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What Tom said.....I think the biggest thing you can do to improve it is color and contrast improvement; it does look flat. You can also mask the BG in LR and slide the noise slider all the way to the right and bring down the texture slider to give the BG some more blur. But be careful, too much can often look unrealistic.

Nice capture, well done.
 
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Edit in Capture One and Topaz DeNoise, selective for background noise according to my taste. Smoothing background, less contrast and structure, and vignetting. On the osprey, a bit up shadow and black. Highlight, a bit down.

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I think everyone brought up some good points but considering the light, and the difficulties in editing it can present, I think you did very well overall, mostly with the capture itself. I also have a feeling a "16x9" would look good for this, it would give it the space in front I feel would help. It's worth a look see anyways.
 
Thank you K9….. a real issue here is that it’s a JPEG. I’ve been struggling with RAW processing and the files, not so much with the editing which seems familiar having worked with Apple’s iPhoto and Photos for years… With 14,000+ images catalogued in JPEGs the transition has been challenging…. I have seen the quantum leap available in RAW and will eventually get there. For this reason I have my “A“ shooting banks (Z8&9, D850 & Df) all set to FX/RAW. The “B” bank is FX/JPEG-fine*…😕
 
Shari, Excellent! I’ve never seen an eagle image similar to this. The bird is on a mission coming towards the photographer. My bird is quartering on and has me spotted.. I used the D850/500Pf/f/6.3/1/1600 I think…
 
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Larry Sherertz said:
Thank you K9….. a real issue here is that it’s a JPEG. I’ve been struggling with RAW processing and the files, not so much with the editing which seems familiar having worked with Apple’s iPhoto and Photos for years… With 14,000+ images catalogued in JPEGs the transition has been challenging…. I have seen the quantum leap available in RAW and will eventually get there. For this reason I have my “A“ shooting banks (Z8&9, D850 & Df) all set to FX/RAW. The “B” bank is FX/JPEG-fine*…😕
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I agree. I just recently started shooting in C-RAW with my Canon R7. When I first got it I always wanted my exif information included when I post so I shot in Jpeg but I decide the benefit of RAW trumps having the exif info >>> My software (Topaz Studio 2) deletes exif info when converting to Jpeg.
 
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Larry Sherertz said:
Shari, Excellent! I’ve never seen an eagle image similar to this. The bird is on a mission coming towards the photographer. My bird is quartering on and has me spotted.. I used the D850/500Pf/f/6.3/1/1600 I think…
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Thank you so much. I read the forum rules too late. I was not supposed to post on someone’s thread. Sorry
 
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