The griffon vulture demonstrates its almost 3 meter wing spread just 20 metters ahead of our shelter.
Canon 30D body
Canon 300mm f/2.8 L IS USM
4.5 @ 1/800, ISO 400, -1/3
А 1024 pixels version of this photo is available here
Here I am the King!
The griffon vulture demonstrates its almost 3 meter wing spread just 20 metters ahead of our shelter.
Canon 30D body
Canon 300mm f/2.8 L IS USM
4.5 @ 1/800, ISO 400, -1/3
А 1024 pixels version of this photo is available here
A beautiful composition Nikolay. I really enjoy it. How did you train the vulture to pose so well for you? Only joking!
Hi Nikolay Impressive bird in its best pose !!!!! Love the low angle and crop !!!! Direct look is very effective About the only thing I could suggest is to select the bg and blur a bit I use PhotoKit Sharpener It has different effects one of which is softening The brush could be used in the bg works very well !!! Excellent image !!!!
Impressive bird, plenty of detail, love the light, the background is a little distracting. For me I find the crop a little tight above the bird.
Great light, colors and the wings make it for me. The pano crop works very well and I like the BG as is. Since there is no catch light, maybe you could try to lighten the eye selectively. Thanks for the link to the 1024 pixel image. It really does the bird justice.
Hi Nikolay, very impressive image and pose. It looks very nice in the 1024 size. Personally, the BG is fine for me as it is. if at all I would suggest try cropping a few mm from the bottom of the image where there are some OOF row of blades of grass. As this is a letterbox should not hurt the composition.
This is very nice, looks like a powerful animal. The low angle makes your subject very strong.
Just awesome!
Great pose. Great crop. Great sharpness and light. The only thing that bugs me (and not very much at that) is the rock (?) to the right... It would be easy to QM that if doing so fits with your personal ethics.
later and love, artie
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Impressive bird,nice light and pose!!!
Beautiful wingspan and gorgeous light Nickolay. The pano presentation is perfect for this guy since he has such a huge wingspan!
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