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This site is dedicated to wildlife and landscape photography.
Here is an old photo of a bald eagle with raised wings that I recently re-processed.
Update: The above photo wasn’t the correct re-processed photo. I just found the photo I meant to post in place of the above photo and re-processed it a bit more. Sometimes filing digital photos can lead to errors. I think the photo below is a little better. Comments welcome!
Long ago, I made several trips to Homer, Alaska, to photograph bald eagles. While I deleted many of them afterwards, I have a lot left that I’ve never done anything with. Here’s one of those photos. I probably deleted a lot of photos like this one then, but for some reason I hadn’t deleted this photo even though the wings were clipped. The other day I was going through those old images to see if there was one I would want to process or “post-process,” as they say. I chose this one thinking that I could possibly use the crop tool to build new wing tips given the improvements Adobe has made to Photoshop. So, after I darkened the sky a bit in Adobe Camera Raw and opened the image in Photoshop, I grabbed the crop tool, pulled the sides outward a bit, selected “Generative Expand,” and got the image below. A nice advancement in Photoshop, in my opinion.
I know there are some who don’t approve of such advancements in image processing, but I’m in favor of them for the most part. Nature photography doesn’t need to be limited to the documentary style necessary for news events as long as you don’t violate any rules, such as in photo contests. What I can’t stand though are images where it’s obvious someone started with a blank screen and just typed in words to create a scene that never existed. Lions seem to be very popular for that on Facebook. They are always so obvious. I’m waiting for someone to type something like: “Create three male lions standing side by side looking at the ‘camera’ with two more male lions standing side by side on the shoulders of the first three lions and looking at the ‘camera’ with a sixth male lion standing on the shoulders of the previous two male lions and also looking at the ‘camera,’ cheerleader style.”
I was looking through some bald eagle photos from about 15 years ago when my Photoshop skills were a bit more limited. I decided to try to improve this one a bit.
Bald eagle on a driftwood tree limb. I don’t recall if it was landing or taking off – or lifting its rear to relieve itself. It was 2009 and I was at the famous Jean Keene’s (“The Eagle Lady”) place on the Homer Spit.
I photographed this bald eagle in 2008 at Homer, Alaska. My how time flies when you’re retired.
A female brown bear roams the tidal flats hunting for clams near Silver Salmon Creek in Lake Clark National Park.
A brown bear munches on sedge grass in Lake Clark National Park. I’m not sure why it is that brown bears, at least where they are routinely photographed, pretty much ignore humans. I don’t know of any distance rules regarding the bears in Lake Clark. Of course, there was the famous case of Timothy Treadwell, a brown bear activist who, along with his girlfriend, was killed by a male brown bear in 2003.
