Bateleur Eagle

[TonyM198]

Bateleur Eagle on a high perch, scanning the surrounding area for potential prey.

Bateleur_Eagle2 by Tony Mitchell, on Flickr

Comments welcome.

[tesarver]

Re: Bateleur Eagle

Nice feather detail. Never seen one of those.

Tom

[colin C]

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Handsome little devil. I have only seen captive ones.

[Trev B]

Re: Bateleur Eagle

Lovely shot, nice feather detail

[Nathaniel]

Re: Bateleur Eagle

Lovely shot. Never seen one before.

[TonyM198]

Re: Bateleur Eagle

Thanks everyone for your kind remarks. This bird was photographed in the Kruger National Park.

[Stan]

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they are beautiful looking birds which you have captured well

The only downside is that you have a very distinct halo all around the bird, which is also showing on flickr, which does spoil it a little

stan

[pelliott1954]

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Nicely caught, lovely colour

Regards Paul

[the black fox]

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super shot but I have to agree with Stan .often caused by over sharpening

[TonyM198]

Re: Bateleur Eagle

Thanks for your comments. Stan, I agree that the original picture had a halo and appeared to be oversharpened. That was actually the second image that I posted. The first one was processed according to the recommended instructions for this forum, with additional sharpening done after the conversion to .PSD format. However, when I looked at the end result after posting it on the forum, it looked dreadful. I therefore went back to the original raw image and processed it again, without any further sharpening at all in Photoshop. As you pointed out, it still came out looking oversharpened! I do my initial processing in DPP4, before converting to a TIF file and then processing further in Photoshop. (DPP4 applies a little sharpening before conversion.) I have done it again, this time reducing the level of sharpening that DPP applies before conversion. I am not sure if it is perfect, but I think it is a little better.