There is no need to get angry or jealous over my expression.
Sharpening and saturation it is personal taste I do it differently for web and different setting for print.
As of the water being blue its no PS there just cheating white Balance. Here is the trick all those shots were shot in golden hour or even minutes before sun set. So naturally water white balance is about 7K but when the yellow almost orange sun hits the eagle the eagle looks so yellow so I cut my white balance below 5K in some cases to 4500K to get the bird looking natural with slide on worm side " golden look" so do to 3k difference in white balance the water becomes blue right on my camera LCD because I'm shooting wrong white Balance for the water which is what I want to achieve.
It doesn't happened all the time you have to have clean sky setting sun, and make sure the eagle are active and they fish close enough. I go a lot shooting Bald eagles in winter and I only get about 10 shots a season Like the film strip that I did is combination from past 2 years.
I think right now I have about 9 or so good shots that I like from past 4 years.
When I go out shooting even if I take a 1000 shots on single day and then if I have one great shot then I'm one happy man.
Here is another one from same day but shot much earlier at 2:23 P.M. where the sun
is still much higher and not yet golden.
It is no the greatest shot but shows the difference in color, not a good crop because I would like to have more on the bottom but I have more water on the top so that is why I made this crop this way.
For those who do shoot fishing bird you know how hard is to get perfect shot.
and here is another one shot few seconds later where you could say that this bird is dragging this fish in slow mode which is not the case this is split second to get or miss this easy looking shot.
I hope you like those this time I have cut the saturation and contrast framing is not always the way I would like to have but on this shot I'm lock that I have not clip his wings because I'm shooting with prime so I can't zoom out when the bird comes to close.
Thanks guys for support.
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Derek Katana
