The Patriot

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• blakitan (5451)
• [2007-01-14 22:28]

Hi Scott,
The eye is very sharp and beautiful.
Excellent close up shot.

Ben Lakitan

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• arfer (0)
• [2007-01-14 22:35]

Hello Scott

Wow a wonderful portrait of this American icon.I had an encounter with 2 of these beautiful birds on Jan 9th at Loch Garry.Excellent DOF and POV.The details are sharp,and the plumage is seen in fine detail.The colours are well saturated and the BG is beautiful.TFS

rob

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• chouette (3000)
• [2007-01-14 22:43]

Hi Scott,
A great image! Nice composition, good colors, excellent DOF and details. Very good job. Thanks for sharing!

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• loot (9861)
• [2007-01-14 22:50]
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Hi Scott

Magnificent portrait with amazing details and stunning colours my friend. You managed to secure this radiant eagle in a great composition with a remarkable BG and perfect exposure.

Shucks, if I look at all the hassles you had to overcome then this shot even moves up another notch or two. ISO800, 1/40 shutter speed, hand held, indoors, florescent lighting, BG boards, ground level perch, grass roots crawling (or is that floor board), and so the list goes on. Excellent PP obviously also helped to save the shot.

Great work and TFS.
Regards
Loot

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• joelo (148)
• [2007-01-14 23:09]

Hi Scott,

A great job, especially considering the conditions. It was obviously a captive bird, but I would never have guessed that it was an indoor shot.

You got great detail in the eye and especially in the white feathers which can be difficult.

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• aan (127)
• [2007-01-15 0:07]

The colours are well saturated and the BG is beautiful.TFS

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• jcoowanitwong (12063)
• [2007-01-15 0:26]

Hi Scott,
Sharp and crystal clear picture. Great pov, dof, and exposure. Very nice vivid colors. Thanks for sharing this fine photo.
JC

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• TAZ (10926)
• [2007-01-15 1:39]

Hello Scott,
You were right to post this amazing portrait, you can be happy of the result !
The "+++" : impressive subject, point of view, sharpness, DOF, colors, exposure, useful note...
The "-" : nothing...
Congratulations my friend and TFS.

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• elefantino (14381)
• [2007-01-15 2:47]

Great eye's details.
Excellent colors and sharpness overall..
Andrea

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• pankajbajpai (16499)
• [2007-01-15 3:44]

hi scott,
excellent portrait shot,
well composed with fine pov,
lovely colours,
nice bg,
well done,
tfs & regards
pankaj

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• cataclysta (5440)
• [2007-01-15 4:08]

Hi
Great portrait of beautiful bird and great blue OOF buckground. Very interesting note.
Best wishes
Krzysztof

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• saeedabbasi (4512)
• [2007-01-15 5:29]

Hi my dear friend Scott ,
excellent focus and very nice colors.
great details with nice sharpness.
it is wonderful shot.
thanks for sharing dear Scott .
regards and best wishes
Saeed

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• ScottHale (420)
• [2007-01-15 6:11]

Scott,
Lot's of detail and colors here. Unbelievably focused. PERFECT beautiful blue bakground. Impossible to find even the slightest flaw in this one. This one is an eye opener!
I will add this one to my favorites because I want to keep coming back to it, it's awesome!

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• dew77 (13209)
• [2007-01-15 6:34]

Hello Scott,
Lovely portrait.He seems smiling:)POV,details,BG,lighting,crisp clear eyes,sharpness and visual impact are wonderful.Excellent work!
TFS..:-)

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• wkshelton (5492)
• [2007-01-15 8:49]

Hello Scott,

Excellent work, Great colors bg POV DOF perfect details very crisp, nicly composed and capture photo excllent I really like this POV the clasic eagle view Nicely done

TFS Kyle

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• Alex99 (18399)
• [2007-01-15 9:16]

Hi Scott.
My congratulations with such nice portrait and perfectly described technique of shooting. It is very important for us.

I like both pictures. My small experience of shooting of eagles shows, that there are many fine positions of these birds and what of them is better, to tell very difficultly.
Your POV is excellent as well as the reproduction of all features of this majestic bird (expression, colours, feathers, etc). TFS and best wishes.
Alexei.

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• AnimalExplorer (62)
• [2007-01-15 9:26]

Very nice portrait shot of this beautiful majestic raptor. The blue backdrop worked out nicely. I dont really like to shoot anything with florescent lighting being the ambient source, I believe it is at 4000 degrees kelvin, plus it also tends to pick up a greenish tint. I think by you using your flash under those conditions made an excellent exposure with the whites coming out really nice. Nicely done Scott. :)

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• fiyo (10472)
• [2007-01-15 11:19]

Hello Scott,
Very good shot indeed!
Perfect details and sharpness. TFS

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• ramthakur (32014)
• [2007-01-15 13:02]

Hello Scott,
The circumstances in which you took this shot speaks volumes about your superior technical expertise at PP level.
The close-up image is faultless and brings forth the character of this fierce bird beautifully.
Well done and thanks.
Ram

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• metcher (4258)
• [2007-01-15 14:20]

Hi, Scott.
Nice portrait. Well handled exposure where white is white and blue is blue. Very good composition, details and sharpness. Nice catchlight in eye.

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• shal (2118)
• [2007-01-15 16:37]

Hi Scott,
lovely portrait of this Eagle,
excellent composition and framing,
no matter how many times I've seen such shots, I always enjoy them :)
Cheers :D

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• RAP (7405)
• [2007-01-15 16:57]

Great portrait of so wonderful bird Scott.

I like it a lot: composition, POV, DOF, focus, sharpness, color, lighting, background, framing, notes.

I don't like it: nothing.

In spite of the slow exposure the sharpness and focus are really very good.
Thank you and regards... Ricardo

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• glazzaro (4565)
• [2007-01-15 20:51]

No fault here, excellent detail and flawless exposure!

Greg

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• whjb (683)
• [2007-01-16 3:09]

Hi Scott,

The advantage of digital photography. Without your explanation I would have thought this was shot outside, light and BG. This surely is the difference between an artist and a photographer, because you created art here. I always have this argument with people who are saying we are cheating with digital manipulation.

We are artist and not only photo journalists. Sometimes we report, but mostly we create. You did the latter here and the outcome is stunning.

TFS
Willem

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• horia (14870)
• [2007-01-16 3:33]
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Hi Scott

Another superb portrait from you!
This is really a great symbol of and for the U.S. and i would really be happy to get this close so as i could snap such a great shot!
In both of the photos the POVs you chose are very nice and work excellent to try and give a natural light look as much as possible.
The details are very neat and sharp (i'm sure the IS helped...just as you said) and the colors are charming and well saturated.
The only nit i found here is the reflection of the two neon lights from its eye...but that's if i'm really mean and critical ;)
The rest is "top job" !
Great work, my friend!

Bravo and TFS
Horia

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• SunToucher (10111)
• [2007-01-16 3:39]

Hi Scott,
What a magnificent photo of this awesome bird. The details in the feathers are breath taking. I read your reply about the overhead lighting, it really did gave you an awesome lighting situation. The blue BG is nice and peacefull for the eye.
TFS,
Niek

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• claudine (0)
• [2007-01-16 7:00]

Hello Scott,
What an impressive look he's giving you in the WS picture... This must have been intimidating indeed. I really liked reading those notes about how you managed with this shot. It was very useful for me. I envy you to have had this chance to see them flying. It happened to me twice and I still remember clearly this great feeling I had. Those birds are truly majestic.

I think that you managed more than well with this portrait. Conditions as you described were very difficult but the result worth the efforts. I'm amazed about the use of ISO 800 that doesn't appear at all. Also, I don't know how you could have had a so nice result by using Neat Image... There is something I must be doing wrong because I can't recover sharpness after using it.

This is a beautiful portrait and his expression is different this time as he seems to be almost smiling. Well done and TFS,
Claudine

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• annagrace (2996)
• [2007-01-17 8:38]

Awesome photo, I love the background as it gives great contrast to this magnificent bird.

Well done, my friend!

Alli

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• marhowie (232)
• [2007-01-17 14:49]

Hi Scott,
This proud bird looks better everytime I see him :)
Excellent sharpness, detail, DOF, color, and exposure. I think the slightly low POV works well, along with the blue sky BG..
Very well done.

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• coolnik (575)
• [2007-01-18 4:26]

Hi Scott,
Nice portrait u have managed to catch the nice light in the eyes
that give it a "before our eyes feel" to the pic.
TFS
CoolNik

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• Juyona (15451)
• [2007-01-18 7:47]

Magnífico retrato y preciosos detalles, compo y luz, agradable nitidez, un gran trabajo... saludos Scott.

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• jeanpaul (14117)
• [2007-01-18 8:57]

Bonjour Scott

Félicitations pour les détails dans le plumage et le regard perçant de l'oiseau. Bravo pour les couleurs justes et réelles.

Merci pour l'envoie et au revoir...JP

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• lovenature (5063)
• [2007-01-18 10:04]
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Hi Scott
It's hard to come up with an original critique as it looks like it's all been said...but here goes
WOW! ...FANTASTIC....AN AWESOME PORTRAIT OF THIS BALD EAGLE....SHARP VIVID COLOURS AND VERY INTERESTING NOTE.
TFS Janice
...did I hear you had another ice storm?

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• cecilia (4630)
• [2007-01-18 22:05]

Another fantastic shot. You do such a great job with sharpness.
Well done....
Cecilia

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• hester (11638)
• [2007-01-20 5:17]

Hi Scott

Amazing sharp details. Nice catchlight in the eye. Great POV and lovely colours. Really nice shot

TFS

Karan

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• jmp (8411)
• [2007-01-21 14:22]

Hi Scott,
A master in Photoshop with the right result!
TFS, José M.

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• aido (4046)
• [2007-01-24 17:52]
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Hello Scott,
One of my favourite subjects :-) Great portrait shot, given the conditions (flourescent light - ugh) a great result. You did well to isolate the Eagle against a neutral background. I thought on first look that this was taken outside against a blue sky. Great work. I thought the detail in the eye and pens were a bit soft so I did a workshop, hope you don't mind.
Cheers,
Adrian

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• SkyF (8127)
• [2007-01-25 8:29]

Hello Scott,
a very majestic looking portrait of this bold eagle. Love the sparkle in its eye and the details are very sharp. Very well cropped and the colors are wonderful.
TFS..Sky

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• pablominto (15915)
• [2007-01-27 3:38]

Hello Scott,
Impressive exposure of the white feathers! They really look white without being washed out...
Great profile portrait of this majestic beauty, expression is well conveyed and with the best of close-up details!
Greetings,
Pablo -

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• Silvio2006 (40477)
• [2007-02-01 8:13]

Ciao Scott, splendid portrait of a superb eagle, fine details, great sharpness, wonderful light and colors, very well done, BRAVO!, ciao Silvio

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• valy67 (8733)
• [2007-02-06 6:45]

Hello Scott !
The bald eagle is one of my favourite birds, they are so mighty and so impressive ! You caputred this one excellently, eith excellent details, beautiful colors and excellent composition. I love the shapr look of the bird and the blue sky in the BG. very well done !
valerie.

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• Biswarup (2779)
• [2007-02-08 2:24]

Hi Scott,
A great image! Nice composition, good colors, excellent DOF and details.

Biswarup

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• westozman (151)
• [2007-02-15 22:55]

G'day Scott,
Great portrait of the definitive raptor, and very useful notes, too. I hope to photograph one of these magnificent birds myself in Alberta the fall of '07.
TFS,
Jeff

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• izler (486)
• [2007-04-30 18:05]

selam Scott
i see wonderful portrait photo of this beautiful king of sky
i like its pose and using of flash
composition, point of view, depth of field, background, lighting, colours, sharpness, details and note are great
thanks for sharing
regards
izler