Juvenile Bearded Vulture

[Stephen Earle]

50D
1/2000
F 6.3
500
400 2.8

Giant's Castle, South Africa

[Doug Brown]

Like the sharpness. The sun looks like it was fairly high in the sky, creating a challenging exposure. You handled it well for the most part, but I'd tone down the whites a little.

[Stephen Earle]

Thx Doug. On my monitor it looked ok but I checked and the original flashed up. I did a quick toning down but there's still some clipped pixels. I'll probably have to revisit the RAW at some point.

[Jean Chang]

Whether the whites were hot or not, it's an amazing shot! The head angle is great--it has that "search and destroy" look on its face. Sharp and beautiful on my monitor. Repost whites look better.

[Doug Brown]

The whites on the repost look much better!

[Fabs Forns]

White issuer covered, I'd evict that pink on the lower right.
Very nice tight in flight portrait, congrats!

[Alfred Forns]

The image is way cool !!! Agree on the whites, you might be able to recover, might try a linear conversion then normal and blend together One image worth working on !!! Sweet !!!

[Tony Whitehead]

Love that stare. Might raise the bird in the frame a bit. Not sure if it's part of the issue here or not, but if you edit in a larger colour space (e.g ProPhoto) and then convert to sRGB for posting it will often push tones over the edge and clip them.

[arash_hazeghi]

very nice sharp with good exposure, the purple oof patch in the LR corner is mildly distracting. TFS

[Bruce Enns]

Beautiful sharp portrait, tight frame/composition works very well with head and eye position. Repost is much better on whites. Another vote for x'ing the pinkish blob. Congrats on a great shot!

Cheers!
Bruce

[Arthur Morris]

While the whites look better on the repost the image does not :) The middle tones are way too light in both the repost and the ORIG. And the underwings look to have been lightened too much. That said the image is fantastic. I would definitely re-do the RAW. And anyone who says that the 50D can't focus needs to take a close look at this one :)

[Stephen Earle]

Thanks everyone for your constructive comments. i think I'm gonna start from scratch with this image. Will maybe repost tomorrow.