Jackal Buzzard Juv

[Dumay de Boulle]

This is a rehabilitated Jackal Buzzard that one of our Rangers is taking care of. Hopefully with some training he will be able to release it back into the wild.

Canon 1D MKIII
Canon 500 f4 L IS
AV f6.3
TV 1/1250
Evaluative metering
ISO 500
AWB RAW file processed in CS5 iMac
Exp +1
Crits appreciated:S3:

[denise ippolito]

Dumay, I like the pose, sharpness and exposure. The background is lovely.

[Clemens Vanderwerf]

Great portrait, and beautiful colors. Love portraits like these.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

What a great look at this guy.Nice light and great detail right down to that amazing killer beak.

[Jason Stander]

Great detail Dumay... like the portrait comp... stunning bg to compliment the subject... how old the buzzard now?:S3:

[Wynand van Wyk]

Love the detail and that lovely eye. Superb background and colours!

A beautiful portrait!:S3:

[adrian dancy]

Superb pose and sharpness.... a bill clean up before the shot was taken would have made this perfect.

[Chris Kotze]

Excellent portrait. Superb IQ and colours

[gail bisson]

Wow and double wow! This is a superb portrait. Light and exposure are terrific. Only nit is piece of ?? on lower bill.
Gail

[Dumay de Boulle]

Thanks all...was to scared to put my hand near this guy to clean the piece of meat as he bit the handler ranger and the guy ended up in hospital to get it sorted out

[noelle zaleski]

Excellent, sharp and nice clean BG,,,, well done! :S3: