I just returned from a photography trip to Reelfoot Lake, a cypress swamp in northwest Tennessee. We saw several bald eagles there. Here is one taking off.
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Any thoughts on composition on these?
I notice the background on the posted images is somewhat pixelated which is not present in the original files. These were not large crops.
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Canon R7, Sigma 150-600mm Contemporary
ISO 800, f7.1, 1/5000s, hand held from boat.
Wonderful!! You held onto great tonal detail on the undersides of these dark birds – not easy to pull off! I wouldn’t have noticed any posterization – there may be a little in the clouds, almost certainly from JPEG compression. I’d bet it would disappear on a larger file (exported at a higher “quality” setting) but I doubt anyone would ever notice it even here. The birds are so eye-popping who would see anything in the sky!
These work very nicely, Allen. I do like the first two with the perch as stand alone images, but the third fits nicely as part of the series. To my eye, the whites look just a bit gray-I think you could push them a bit further and still retain that nice feather detail.
