Cape vulture landing

[Stephen Earle]

50D, ISO 400, f4, 1/4000, 400 2.8 + 1.4conv, almost full frame.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautiful warm colors,pose and stunning bg!

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great work with the exposure,
sharp light but there are no major shadows present,
love the BG, same tonality as the subject,
the extra blue color is just perfect.
Some powerful bird.
I love it!

[David Fletcher]

Really good shot Stephen. Superb details and bg. Is this from Giant's Castle? Great work.

[Joe Senzatimore]

Stunning image. The pose is Killer as is the detail and beautiful warm color.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice landing pose, good BG. I like the textures in the wing feathers. As posted I would only suggest lightening the eye a bit, but overall very nice :-)

[Jorge Rodrigues]

Hi Stephen,

Really like the shot. I would try to see how it looks with a bit more space on the bottom and a slight crop on the right. Just love the background.

Regards,
Jorge

[Hugh J McLaughlin]

Wouldn't change a thing. Light and BG are special.

[Fabs Forns]

Stephen, great pose you have with sweet light and BG, what's not to like?

[Cal Walters]

WOW! R.O.A.T.! (reach out and touch) great sharpness overall - agree with all other comments.

[Doug Brown]

Beautiful shot, and a surprising amount of DOF for f/4. It worked perfectly here, but in general I would stop down when working large birds like this (especially with enough available light to pull off 1/4000). You guys in the African contingent are making want to go out and buy a ticket to your amazing continent!

[Jay Gould]

Steve, you guys in Africa have too much light; send some our way.

[Harshad Barve]

there is nothing to dislike
this is great stuff, And yes Jay GOuld, we too have toomuch of light here in India:)

Harshad

[Gerrie van Vuuren]

Stunning image! Like the posture, light, colours & BG.

[Stu Bowie]

Light, detail, sharpness, stunning colourful BG, what else could you ask for in this image Stephen. I like the posture too. Comp wise, I would take a bit off the right, and add to the bottom as a vertical crop. Just a thought.

[Dave Barnes]

Fantastic capture Stephen.
Love the detail captured pose and comp.
The BG looks great as presented but I think it is over saturated? (not natural?)

[Kiran Poonacha]

its a "wow" Image... the BG, the details and pose are great.. congrats...

[Stephen Earle]

Thx everyone for your comments. Dave, no saturation added. I dropped the exposure on the bg a bit and upped the contrast which resulted in what you see. Also ran nr on the bg.

[Kobus Tollig]

Super shot well done on this. Great comp pose and exposure with good light and bg

[Morkel Erasmus]

another cracker from you GC trip Stephen! might be my favourite. love the pose, details and exposure.

[Stephen Earle]

Thanks for your kind words Morkel and Kobus.

[Chris van Rooyen]

One of the better images I have seen from GC. Light and posture is great, the diagonal lines in the background is very pleasing - gives a sense of movement. Exposure on whites good - too bad about the shadow in the eye, its inevitable.

[Chris Kotze]

Ditto all the great comment. Excellent capture and super light and colours