About the Image(s)

On a trip to Alaska early in July wildlife was scarce, but eagles and whales were abundant. The morning we docked in Sitka I noticed a flock of about four eagles gathered on a landing right across from the ship. I waited until one of them took off and came closer into my focus and then took the shots. I was lucky I got more than one good shot and thought I would use a triptych to show the same eagle flying in three different wing positions. I look forward to comments from the group.

Each photo was take on my Canon 90D with a 100-400mm lens, at 400mm focal point, f/5.6 1/1600 second, ISO 6400 with continuous shutter mode. I used AI SERVO to keep the focus on the eagle as it moved. All three were taken in a continuous shot of about 10 photos in about half a second. I did edits to all three in Lightroom and one in Photoshop. In Lightroom I cropped, adjusted tone curves and increased texture and clarity settings to bring out details in the wings. In all three I used Denoise to smooth out the backgrounds which because of the high ISO were very noisy. In Photoshop I moved the eagle on the left away from the land background so I could edit it with only water around it.