Bearded Vulture

[Loukie Viljoen]

One more shot of Bearded Vulture at Giants Castle, they will come to an end ?


File size: 140KB
Camera Model: Canon EOS-1D Mark III
Date/Time: 2008:06:23 10:49:34
Shutter speed: 1/2000 sec
Aperture: 6.3
Exposure mode: Av
Exposure compensation: +1/3
Flash: Off
Metering mode: Multi-segment
ISO: 640
Focal length: 500mm
Image size: 614 x 800
Rotation: none
Color space: sRGB
Color profile: sRGB IEC61966-2.1

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Excellent pose and BG. I might tone down the whites a bit and sharpen less. If you use the magic wand tool to select the BG before NR, you won't get the noisy area around the bird.

[Mike Milicia]

Great pose and top side view and excellent BG for the subject !

Agree with nits above.

[Juan Aragonés]

The banking pose is fantastic but I think this one is too mach sharpened. You have some noise around the bird, maybe due to an unadequate selective noise reduction on the BG. Axel give a very good suggestion to fix the problem. Sometimes is not easy to detect noise on the images we have been working on and to avoid that I use to creat a layer mask and play a little with the contrast/brightness sliders because this simple thing helps a lot to see our mistakes in the processing. Here is an example (I used a wjite line to draw the noise area)

[Gus Cobos]

Nice capture, I like the flight banking angle. good details and colors. No nits from me, since they have been covered...:D

[Doug Brown]

Excellent photo. Excellent critique by Axel. Excellent tips from Juan.