Canon EOS 7D
Canon EF 100-400mm f4.5-5.6 IS UFM lens@ 400mm
ISO 1000
f/5.6
1/640/sec
How can he be so happy looking at dead meat?!
Comments and critique welcomed.
my best,
Jay Bernstein
The head seems just a tad soft. A little bit more of sharpening should do the trick.
Were you standing or kneeling? If kneeling, this is a case where standing probably
would've been ideal cause you could've lost that top most of the background.
If standing, a couple of steps backword/forward would've also accomplished the
same thing.
I remember my first trip down to Florida (I'm in Ohio) and I saw park signs warning car
owners that they weren't responsible for any damage vultures might do to the
rubber molding on the cars.
Randy and Doug
Thank you for your comments and yes I was kneeling. I thought from other critiques lowering the camera angle was ideal but I understand from this point of view there was too much BG. I have other shots of eye contact with the camera, however the one I submitted was the only one with the open expression which I thought was unique.
Jay
A lower shooting angle often has many advantages, more intimate, throws the BG more out of focus, etc. but it there is a distracting color or pattern in the BG, even if out of focus, it may be better to go a bit higher to eliminate it. I often shoot both angles, higher and lower, and chose the one that works the best for that overall picture
Neat pose, we don't see these guys with an open bill very often in photos. Check out the dirty plumage too (it's OK for this species). I agree with the HA and sharpness, and in this case I may have tried some photos ehile lying flat on the ground (if possible and if you are physically able to). I see some cloning artefatcs in front of the subject's legs and behind your signature...