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Hello all

I was trying to capture the dawn rising over the Tweed River over the weekend - my first attempts at RAW photography and found this eagle (?) doing laps above me.

I tried grabbing a few shots, hand-held, 75-300 @300, 1/500 @f5.6, ISO 250.

This is also my first attempt of PP with NV and RSE. I have cropped the image slightly and tried to bring out some of the detail under the wings. Being hand held, the pic is not as sharp as it could be...



Sorry - pic seems very small in the post....

Cheers
Gecko

Gecko, seems like a nice shot but really it is way too small to tell. I have had blisters bigger than that. We suggest to keep pics under 800 pixels on the long side and under 100k in size. You are admirably under that Feel free to post a little larger

Hi Glen

I thought I had resized it so the longest side was 800 pixels, I must have done something wrong. I will try again!

Gecko

You've linked the thumb, not the image.

Thanks Kipper!

I will have to go back and read the posting instructions again!

In the meantime, I have been stuffing around trying to figure out what was going on and trying to upload another image to PixSpot and the upload seems to be taking forever!

Cheers
Gecko

Hand-held at 300mm seems pretty good to me... Good detail on the underside of the bird... Seems a good catch to me.

Out of curiosity, which lens?

It is always nice to get the shot you did not expect, and this is a beaudy

Thanks for the kind words

The lens is an old Nikkor 75-300mm f4.5-5.6 (I think these details are correct). It is the one with a small tripod collar. I picked it up second hand a few years ago. $$$ are tight, so I didn't buy the kit 70-300 G lens with the D70...

Cheers
Gecko