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American Bald Eagle STORMFLIGHT (Hailiaeetus leucocephalus, Pygarge a tete blanche, BAEA) from my BALD EAGLE WORKSHOP in Kachemak Bay (near Homer), Alaska. Image Copyright ©Christopher Dodds. Sony Alpha a9 II Mirrorless camera & Sony Alpha a9 II…

American Bald Eagle STORMFLIGHT (Hailiaeetus leucocephalus, Pygarge a tete blanche, BAEA) from my BALD EAGLE WORKSHOP in Kachemak Bay (near Homer), Alaska. Image Copyright ©Christopher Dodds. Sony Alpha a9 II Mirrorless camera & Sony Alpha a9 II Mirrorless camera & Sony FE 200-600mm f/5.6-6.3 G OSS Lens @298mm f/6.3 ISO 2,500 @ 1/5,000s.

Bald Eagle STORMFLIGHT

Christopher Dodds November 7, 2020

An image from an epic day during my last Bald Eagle Workshop in Alaska. I love photographing on overcast days, especially when there is a fresh blanket of snow to reflect the ambient light and illuminate the underside of dark bards like the Eagle here. The big problem is all of the resulting images have bright white backgrounds (if you expose the subject correctly) without much (if any) detail in the sky. To solve the problem, and make the image resemble what we saw with our eyes, I replaced the white sky in the image with a separate image of the sky in Photoshop. The resulting composite image has loads of visual impact.

In Workshop Report Tags Bald Eagle, Bald Eagle Photo Tour, bald eagle workshop, Homer, Alaska, Hailiaeetus leucocephalus, Pygarge a tete blanche, BAEA, composite image, visual impact, AK
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