| Author | Thread |
|
|
02/08/2025 12:45:54 PM |
| Incredible! Holy smokes.. This shot is amazing! Congratulations |
|
 Photographer found comment helpful. |
|
|
02/08/2025 06:52:56 AM |
Originally posted by 3DsArcher:
I envy your opportunity to photograph these magnificent birds. This is really well captured |
Thanks for the comment Alex. Surprisingly, I captured this scene about 50 yards away off the road in a corn field on the way to the mall. I have taken previous pictures of several eagles that live near here but this time they had ventured closer to the road to feast on some road kill. Normally they are very aware of me and fly off. This time I was able to pull my car over to the side, get out and shoot several shots before they left.
|
|
|
|
02/08/2025 06:45:17 AM |
Originally posted by vawendy:
I'm wondering if you did sharpening on the whole image? It looks like there's some strange things going on in parts of the background, especially in the lower right? If you're working on sharpening and clarity, you might want to do it on the bird, and not on the background to make it look a bit more natural. You don't need to blur it, just don't sharpen or even just reduce clarity in camera RAW if you're using Adobe. Great capture, a bit uncomfortable in the processing. |
Thank you for the comment Wendy. Yes, you are correct. I noticed the distortion of the backround. It seems to occur when I use my 100-400 lens on certain images when I try to sharpen the image with Topaz. I should have as you suggested tried to selectively sharpen the bird. It's an unappealing backround and I thought it made it look a little like water:( so I left it alone. |
|
|
|
02/08/2025 06:43:19 AM |
| Wonderful image, was in my second round of picks! |
|
| Photographer found comment helpful. |
|
|
02/08/2025 04:51:15 AM |
amazing capture Larry .. and many congratulations on the ribbon ..
I'm only looking at this on my phone so i'm not getting the full impact ..
but I did wonder about the background too .. so I'll be interested to hear your response to Wendy .. :)
|
|
| Photographer found comment helpful. |
Comments Made During the Challenge  |
|
|
02/06/2025 10:04:41 AM |
| I'm wondering if you did sharpening on the whole image? It looks like there's some strange things going on in parts of the background, especially in the lower right? If you're working on sharpening and clarity, you might want to do it on the bird, and not on the background to make it look a bit more natural. You don't need to blur it, just don't sharpen or even just reduce clarity in camera RAW if you're using Adobe. Great capture, a bit uncomfortable in the processing. |
|
| Photographer found comment helpful. |
|
|
02/04/2025 03:33:15 PM |
| I envy your opportunity to photograph these magnificent birds. This is really well captured |
|
| Photographer found comment helpful. |
|
|
02/03/2025 03:23:49 AM |
| Brilliant shot but somehow the background detracts a bit |
|
| Photographer found comment helpful. |
Home -
Challenges -
Community -
League -
Photos -
Cameras -
Lenses -
Learn -
Help -
Terms of Use -
Privacy -
Top ^
DPChallenge, and website content and design, Copyright © 2001-2025 Challenging Technologies, LLC.
All digital photo copyrights belong to the photographers and may not be used without permission.
Current Server Time: 03/31/2025 06:58:26 PM EDT.
Focused
Add photograph to your favorites
Add photographer to your favorites
