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(Message started by: Anguslau on Nov 19^th, 2004, 7:15pm)

Title: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by Anguslau on Nov 19^th, 2004, 7:15pm

Finally had a chance to meet them! ;D They are beautiful! My only complaint is that they were a bit far away from me. ::) ;D

Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Mai Po (米埔)
19/11/2004
1D Mark II, EF600+2x, f/11, 1/800s, iso400
http://www.pbase.com/anguslau/image/36529979.jpg

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by Hendrix on Nov 19^th, 2004, 7:31pm

:o :o YOU BEST SHOOT ! :D :D

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by pippenho on Nov 19^th, 2004, 7:31pm

難得的角度 :o :o :o600+2x在1D Mark II上還真不錯啊!

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by 深藍 Owen on Nov 19^th, 2004, 8:02pm

好開心定喇.. ! ;D ;D ;D ;D

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by 648 on Nov 19^th, 2004, 9:21pm

[quote author=Anguslau link=board=PhotoGallery;num=1100862974;start=0#0 date=11/19/04 at 19:15:52]Finally had a chance to meet them! ;D They are beautiful! My only complaint is that they were a bit far away from me. ::) ;D

已經好大隻啦！口水流滿地！

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by Lynx on Nov 19^th, 2004, 9:38pm

:o :o :o :o wonderful :o :o :o :o

Using a 600 lens + 2x to chase a flying eagle accurately is "mission impossible" to me ;D

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by Daniel CK Chan on Nov 19^th, 2004, 10:06pm

Great shot! Angus! Love this angle, especially the spreading wings from the back!  :-*

Did you and KK see the adult one today? ???

Wish I were in Mai Po today.... :'(

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by KK Hui on Nov 19^th, 2004, 10:19pm

Nice shot and love the top wing, Angus! ::)

You'd have more plumage details if you had used the 1.4x instead ... Slightly over exposed as is if you examine carefully the white strips. PS may correct that; not a big problem.

Daniel, no sign of the adult anywhere today ... :(

KK Hui ARPS
www.geocities.com/kkhui_001

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by Sze on Nov 19^th, 2004, 11:25pm

好勁呀！
可以影到佢個背脊呀！ :o

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by xyz_ps on Nov 20^th, 2004, 1:07am

佢個背脊好靚呢~
excellent shot啦!!! ;D

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by Anguslau on Nov 20^th, 2004, 11:45am

Thanks for all the comments and suggestions! :)

Quote:

Did you and KK see the adult one today?

Daniel, I did see one adult in the sky. It looked so different from the juvenile that I cannot recognise it as the same species. :P

1D Mark II, EF600+2x, f/11, 1/1000s, iso800
http://www.pbase.com/anguslau/image/36529982.jpg

It circled in the sky for quite a while by gliding and never seemed to flap its wings. The underwing was so dark that its almost appeared black. Later on, it was constantly being attacked by a black kite even though the kite was much smaller in size. ::)

As kk mentioned, there were two juveniles in Mai Po yesterday. I saw one from the tower hide in early morning. As I moved to bird hide 1 later, I saw two of them on the ground!! One took off as I was adjusting my tripod (argh!!! :(). I waited for the second one to take off and this is one of the images I took. It was still quite low in the horizon, so the sky was not very blue - a bit dirty... ;D

Quote:

You'd have more plumage details if you had used the 1.4x instead ... Slightly over exposed as is if you examine carefully the white strips. PS may correct that; not a big problem.

kk, thanks for the suggestions. I understand what you are saying and certainly see the differences between your image and mine... :P :-[ I wish I could use the 1.4x converter or even without it. But it was quite far away from me. This image is already cropped to about 50% of orignal! Also as you know, my 1D2+EF600+1.4x setup is a bit handicapped and I don't have much confident in it. :( I might try more in the future to see whether I can really use it...

I tried to tame down the highlight with the repost below, but I am not sure I've made much improvement. :-[ I found that the orignal image was not overexposed. But as I tried to boost contrast and sharpen, the highlight appeared blown. ??? In this repost, I tried to be less aggressive in increasing contrast. Instead, I sharpened the image a bit more attempting to "bring" out more "details". I also tried a bit less aggressive in increasing the "blue" of the sky so that it appears more natural, but also more dark grey as a result. Not exactly sure whether this is for the better or for the worse... ??? :P :-[http://www.pbase.com/anguslau/image/36550357.jpg

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by KK Hui on Nov 20^th, 2004, 2:08pm

Thanks for the re-post, Angus!
It's nice and sharp. The white is now contained.
A job well done! ::)

KK Hui ARPS
www.geocities.com/kkhui_001

Title: Re: Imperial Eagle (白肩鵰) inflight
Post by Daniel CK Chan on Nov 20^th, 2004, 2:23pm

Thanks for your info.
I like the repost, it is much better. Well done!