Haliaeetus leucocephalus

[hellziggy]

Here are the Bald Eagle pictures promised earlier...

This is how close in my camera could zoom on him:


And these are cropped in closer with Photoshop:

Comments

[vorrant.livejournal.com]

It's always fun to see one of these wheeling around the twin cities.

[gunthar.livejournal.com]

Did the eagle just happen to pick the only branch that was stripped of bark or did he do it himself?

I think image #2 is fairly decent, but is a notch past the optimum point of diminishing returns between zoom and image quality. Your subject is decently sized, but at the expense of turning your background into an almost abstract jumble. Your eagle isn't sitting on a branch anymore, he's floating in kalidoscope of branches.

Is it just me or does the image seem lighter as you enlarge it? What happen if you enlarge a darker image? Can you enlarge it more without getting the greying fuzzy halo around the details?

See the detail in the light-colored head and tailfeathers of the darker image #4 and the detail in the dark-colored wing and breast feathers of the lighter image #5? Can you put the two together so that the level of detail is enhanced from the head of the eagle to its tail?

[theatre-nerd.livejournal.com]

Right outside your window too! Wow.

[cathain-magi.livejournal.com]

Very Majestic!! Nice.

[(Anonymous)]

Pretty bird! Pretty bird!

Damn fine pictures, Sharon. He really is beautiful.