Turkey Vulture

[Indranil Sircar]

Taken at Sunnyvale Baylands this afternoon...

Canon 40D, Sigma 50-500mm F4-6.3 APO DG HSM, hand held
ISO 400, 1/640 sec, 500mm at f9, exp comp. +.5

Your comments and feedback would be appreciated.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Compositionally I would give more room above...should be easy with a plain blue sky! There is distracting blue halo around the perimeter of the primaries...was this a very pale sky with the blues pushed in post-processing? Good view of the underwing.

[Vincent Grafhorst]

Daniel has got some good comments there. I think some more PS work can improve this.

[Indranil Sircar]

Daniel, Vincent, thanks for the feedback. Edge sharpening on the raw with final USM made this halo. Here is the updated version.

[Aidan Briggs]

The repost looks much better. The BG looks a tad bit noisy though.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Looks much better now. The added canvas above also helps, and also the more visible catchlight :-)