Egyptian Vulture

[girisholeti]

Made this morning. Vertical crop from horizontal frame.

Canon 7D, Canon 500mm f4+1.4x TC, ISO 200, f5.6, 1/1000Sec.

[Karl Egressy]

Amazing and funny at the same time. Love the preening pose.
The details are fantastic.

[Paul Lagasi]

Wonderful image, I can see why they are sought after as subjects....I looked for them this August in Italy but no luck...someday.
A sharp image, well captured...only thing I might do is remove the white from the perch but thats just me.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Stunning image Girish. Awesome pose, killer IQ, bg, light and perch.
White wash could be toned down, if not removed, and just a tad bit of room around if you have it.
Fantastic image!

[alwan sadagopan]

Lovely image - loved the pose and the compo!

[Randy Stout]

Excellent detail, lighting, exposure.

Generally preening poses work better when the head is parallel to the sensor, but this one works very well.

Def. agree about a bit more room left and right, and I would also consider white wash elimination or toning down.


Cheers

Randy

[girisholeti]

The original frame is horizontal but I cropped it to vertical frame.

Here is the original with more space on left and right sides. Also removed whitewash.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

I think I'm liking the horizontal better and I like that you removed the doo doo. Cool looking guy too.

[ramesh anantharaman]

Superb details and exposure here Sapta. love the pose and the horizontal crop is awesome

[Richard Unsworth]

Amazing subject, pose, details
have to keep looking

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

Love the preening pose!!!

[Sid Garige]

Excellent pose very well captured Girish.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I prefer the looser comp and cleaner perch of the repost. Now all you need is to enhance the reflection at the top part of the eye to give it more life. Good preening pose, nice colours throughout.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent preening pose and details I prefer the repost.

[Dumay de Boulle]

I like both posts but the whitewash for me should be left...Its more natural that way..Superb IQ and exp

[Mark Wiseman]

Superb image quality and background. I prefer the landscape orientation, so the repost is better for me, stunning image.

[noelle zaleski]

Wonderful capture! Gorgeous bird, background and perch.

[christopher galeski]

I like both the images,good BG,excellent detail,good exposure,would lighten the eye a touch.well done.

[Mital Patel]

this is extremely beautiful images ... i might give a little work on opening up iris. and the horizontal frame is my choice here.

[Arthur Morris]

Girish-bhai. Both superb; I prefer the horizontal by far but not sure why. Is Pane 7 the full frame ORIG? (It looks a bit on the square side.) Do you know if the yellow bill is breeding condition?

[girisholeti]

Artie, this is near full frame. I caught up in the habit of cropping to 1024X768 px. Result of starting a software career when Microsoft was ruling the world.

The Indian subspecies (Neophron percnopterus ginginianus) always has the light yellow beak.

[Arthur Morris]

Thanks Girish. You might want to break that habit; there is often something magical about 3X2....

[Mital Patel]

Girish bhai, yes that 3x2 is just wow looking i tried and found really interesting crop ..

[Arthur Morris]

Girish bhai, yes that 3x2 is just wow looking i tried and found really interesting crop ..

Mital, The image in Pane 7 is a bit fatter than 3X2....

[girisholeti]

Artie, I took your word. Cropped my latest post Short toed snake eagle to 3X2. Posted today.

I think, Mital is just endorsing your view on 3X2 :-)

[Mital Patel]

yeah i was just refferrin to our Art guru what he was saying about 3x2. yours pane 7 is 4:3

[Arthur Morris]

yeah i was just refferrin to our Art guru what he was saying about 3x2. yours pane 7 is 4:3

Thanks for clearing that up; sorry for misunderstanding :)