Bearded Vulture in flight

[Amano Samarpan]

Canon 1D Mark 111 with 500mm f4 IS
1/1600@f11
ISO 400


Debre Libanos, Ethiopia, Africa

amazing what some bones from last night's dinner can encourage to fly along!

add some morning sun and a blue sky ...

Amano

[Amano Samarpan]

My own repost .. with a little more brightness contrast!
Amano

[Doug Brown]

I'm glad you adjusted the image yourself Amano; that was going to be my first comment. I think the repost is larger than 200 KB and our software compressed the image, taking away a bunch of detail. You might want to adjust the file size and repost. I like the topside bank but wish for a bit more eye contact.

[Amano Samarpan]

Yes, Doug .. it was 201Kb!!
I was wondering why it was not so sharp.
Understand what you mean about the bird's eye here!
Amano

[Amano Samarpan]

... and the image, version 3!

Amano

[Amano Samarpan]

... which for some reason does not want to upload .. another try .. maybe i have reached my limit of uploads in a given time!?

Amano

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Nice bird and image Amano. I like to see the back of this bird and the connection with the ground (by including the treeline), as per the head angle is slightly away but that's not a big problem for me as far as I can see the eye and this one is a sharp one. Repost suffered a bit.

[John Chardine]

Armano- Look forward to seeing the repost! Great to see this species. I tried lightening myself and it worked great. Also a little extra sharpening helped. The under exposure has produced some noise in the BG which you can easily remove.

[Arthur Morris]

The sky needs to be lighter but the bird could use some more contrast... There are no repost limits Amano. The image in Pane 2 was wrecked. As far as I know, you should get a warning and files >200kb should not be uploading.

[Amano Samarpan]

Hi There

Its' taken a bit of time to get around to reposting this ... but here it is!

Try to do as much a I can in RAW but Photoshop is always good for final tweaks particularly when there are questions over the resizing.

Have played around with contrast etc making the bird appear a bit darker and increasing the blue saturation.

I rather like the composition in inherent in the bird .. its' posture is almost awkward which says something about this large bone-eating raptor.

Cheers

Amano

[Arthur Morris]

I like it much better with the added punch.