Turkey Vulture in Flight


Posted by Brandon Pittam on Sun Mar 14, 2004 1:29 pm

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Well, to my surprise, while over my girlfriend's parent's house there were atleast 3 dozen turkey vultures in the backyard. They were all in the tree and under alot of shade, tough to get a clean picture of them. So I walked out into the field, and none of them flew away to get a flight picture. I didn't want to scare them by yelling at them so I found some sticks and I snapped them in hald and just that noise made a few fly away. Like all birds once one flies - they all fly, so I managed to get some shots.
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Canon EOS Digital Rebel (400mm f/5.6): 1/1000 sec, f/5.6, ISO 400

Straight from the camera no color alterations, just resizing for submission.

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by Bill Whala on Sun Mar 14, 2004 2:04 pm
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Excellent work, Brandon!! I wonder if the S/H tool in PS 8 would help bring out the underwing detail on his right wing. 8)
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by jnadler on Sun Mar 14, 2004 4:36 pm
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An excellent photo of this species! Well done!
 

by Alan Murphy on Sun Mar 14, 2004 5:14 pm
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Nice flight shot Brandon. I too would work the dark wing in PS.
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by George McCarthy on Sun Mar 14, 2004 6:03 pm
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Nice clean image but that wing requires a bit of work. Also the head could be sharpened a bit more.

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by Noel on Sun Mar 14, 2004 8:13 pm
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Wow, a seriously sharp in-flight shot! Well done!

I don't mind the deep shadows, but a little experimentation on the dark parts indicates that there is some data there in the shadows that can be recovered.

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by Brandon Pittam on Sun Mar 14, 2004 8:26 pm
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Thanks for the comments and suggestions. I was pretty impressed with the outcome from the picture directly off the camera. I also took the suggestions and re-worked the picture. I didn't want to link up another image to load on this post so I'll just post the image to my site.



http://www.brandonpittam.com/vulture_re.jpg

Thanks again.

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by AForns on Sun Mar 14, 2004 9:19 pm
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Nice shot Brandon I spend most of the morning shooting those things. They are very hard to get.

You did not mentioned if any compensation was used. Normally you need at least 1 1/2 + to get detail under the wings.. Ideally if you can get them when they are banking it would require a little less.

You can also try flash will in at HS if they are flying low. You did a good job they are plain hard to nail. The head looks great.
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by Doug Freimark on Sun Mar 14, 2004 10:28 pm
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Nice shot Brandon, I like the one on your site better.
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