Turkey Vulture

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image along Black Point Wildlife Drive in Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge, Merritt Island, Florida. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED image captured at 400mm
1/4000 F/5.6 Matrix Metering EV 0 ISO 1400 AWB HH
Post processed in Lightroom Classic CC and Photoshop CC 2018
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Dorian Anderson]

Beautiful shot of a hideous bird! The light and details are great. I might turn the whites down just a bit. They seem a bit hot now.

[Arthur Morris]

Pretty much perfect. The WHITEs are not overexposed but could use a bit more detail. I selected them and ran a 20% Linear Burn for the repost. Then I de-saturated the YELLOWs on the bill. Last was a crop to 3X2 for those who are not big fans of boxy crops. I think that the repost is more pleasing artistically and the IQ held up just fine.

with love, arite

[Arthur Morris]

ps: Head angle and soft light are perfect.

[John Mack]

Pretty solid portrait here. Nice light and background on the tv.

[William Dickson]

Looking good Joe. Love the colours throughout the image. Nice detail with a great HA. Artie has done a good job on the repost, i like his chosen crop.

Will

[Daniel Cadieux]

Pretty cool to see these up close! You had enough light, and the BG edistant enough, to stop down for more dof on this tight portrait. I love the face details, light, wet neck feathers. Artie's repost brings it up a notch as well.

[Joseph Przybyla]

Thanks everyone for viewing and commenting, very much appreciated.

Artie, thank you for the edt, description of what you did, and repost of the image. Here is a post trying to match your edit.

[Arthur Morris]

God student!

with love, artie

ps: I made a few very similar images here at ILE yesterday morning :)