Bearded Vulture - Full Frame

[Wayne Niz]

Another pic of a Juvenile Bearded Vulture
R5
600 f4 ii
1/5000
f5.6
iso 1250
Sticks with Gimbal
No Crop, pic as taken

[Kurt Bowman]

My favorite of your vulture posts so far Wayne! I like the head angle with him looking back. If mine I might consider increasing the exposure about a third of a stop, seems a tad under to me.

[dankearl]

This is much better than the one you posted and fell in love with. HA is way better, good eye contact, wings are what they always are with the species but nice underwing detail.
Blue sky on the edge of too blue for me, but that is personal..

[Dorian Anderson]

Yes, this is certainly the best of the vulture bunch, especially with the curious look on his face.

That said, the flat wing pose leaves a lot to be desired. Without any banking, the bird's presence in the frame is minimized. He's too long and skinny, and the OOF mountain behind
overpowers him. In this instance, it would help if the mountain were closer and had a tiny bit more texture. It's so far off that it does more to distract to add.

Another piece of advice (which I'm sure Arash will echo): the tripod absolutely kills you for flight work. You cannot capture the most dynamic moments when your rig is tethered. You're
going to be stuck with flat-wing, gliding poses unless you can get the rig off the tripod, learn to handhold, and track more dynamic action.

[arash_hazeghi]

while this is better than the other ones, but it is not a strong image as Dorian also mentioned. I think your hummingbird image is what we can certainly call an attractive image but this is not all that great . The strong shadows and the flat wing position don't quite work for me. There is no dynamic element, no sense of motion.... and the belly looks sharper than the head to my eye.
image has too much contrast....

I agree with Dorian 100%, I am going to be honest with you, if you cannot hand hold you it will be very difficult to make keeper flight images beyond just a snap shot. I emailed you my BIF guide, I hope you find it useful.

TFS

[gail bisson]

You have been given some great advice above!
I would add some more canvas on the left ,
Gail

[Wayne Niz]

Hi All

Thank you very much for all your valuable comments, the image was way too contrasty so calmed that down to a panic

[Wayne Niz]

while this is better than the other ones, but it is not a strong image as Dorian also mentioned. I think your hummingbird image is what we can certainly call an attractive image but this is not all that great . The strong shadows and the flat wing position don't quite work for me. There is no dynamic element, no sense of motion.... and the belly looks sharper than the head to my eye.
image has too much contrast....

I agree with Dorian 100%, I am going to be honest with you, if you cannot hand hold you it will be very difficult to make keeper flight images beyond just a snap shot. I emailed you my BIF guide, I hope you find it useful.

TFS

Hey Arash

Thank you very much will definitely look out for it much appreciated. WRT the belly being sharper, its not the case if you view the full res picture, maybe 600kb from 20mp issue
I will start to practice hand hold for sure whenever Im out

Thanks again

[William Dickson]

The RP with less contrast looks better here.....Nice HA, and details....I agree it's better than the previous....Not sure about the OOF mountains....

Will

[John Mack]

I like the way the birds head is turned. Looks sharp to me.