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African fish eagle at sunset

Oct 11 2026 | By: Jim Zuckerman Photography

This is an African fish eagle I photographed in sunset light in Kenya. In order to make the eagle stand out against the busy grasses, I chose Select > subject and then Select > inverse. This grabbed the entire background. I then desaturated the sunset colors on the background using Image > Adjustments > hue/saturation by moving the saturation slider to the left. I could have eliminated the background entirely by adding a sky, but I wanted to keep the look of the original capture. My settings for this shot were 1/1000, f/11, and 1000 ISO. I took this with a 500mm focal length plus a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 700mm of focal length.

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