First Eagle

[yakfisher]

I got my first postable eagle shot. He is a juvie, captured with my 70-300 VR handheld at 300mm. Hopefully I'll get some tighter shots eventually. It was, overall, a good learning experience today.

[MN Shutterbug]

Not bad, Yahfisher. BIF's are a whole new challenge. I've got very few keepers myself, so it sure is a good feeling when one turns out decent, isn't it? Good job.

[mountaindew]

Pretty good! I've got a couple of juvies shot like yours. I wasn't sure to post it or not...but yours is very good. Is that shot cropped? what settings did you have on your camera?

[Dbl]

There you go Yakfisher! Glad you found an eagle to grab a shot of.

[yakfisher]

I'm glad you asked Mountain Dew. I discovered that I had my camera 's ISO set too high. I thought I had turned it down but I guess not. At least I figured out why I thought some of my pictures were a little noisy, they were noisy. It was shot with a Nikon D50 with a 70-300 VR lens at 220mm, f10, 1/3200, ev -1/3, ISO at a whooping 800 and cropped in at about 50%. Oops, I think I remember somewhere on one of these threads that someone suggested always check the ISO and I've heard it elsewhere too. Oh well, I need the practice with noise ninja anyway.

I was down at the MN River NWR, this eagle was working the area and I also saw about 4 or 5 others, plus some hawks and one cardinal.

[Sandmannd]

Eagles are my favorite bird to see on film. You did a great job for your first time. I would love to get into pictures like that.

[89Bronco]

Eagles are the best. I have some paintings of bald eagles in the house, but it would be really neat to have some good photos of them too.

[Steve Foss]

yakfisher, that's darn good. Tough to get nice detail at that iso/camera and crop, but you did well.

More than once I've forgotten to check iso and had some, ah, interesting results.

[yakfisher]

I guess now I know why I had to turn down my ev so much. Live and learn.

[perch_destroyer]

great detail, heck of a shot. the Perch

[DMN]

Congradulations Yakfisher, nice shot.

I'm sure you found out that they are not that easy to keep in the viewfinder, at least not for me anyway.

DMN

[Yeti]

Yeti like...especially think immature eagle much "cooler" looking than mature bird...Yeti think maturity over-rated.