Vulturine Guinea Fowl

Gallery: AvianPosted February 26, 2013673 views4 comments

Acryllium Vulturinum
Taken in Samburu National Park, Kenya

Nikon D80
Nikon 70-300mm lens at 155mm
1/640s
f7.1
ISO400

Original photo was landscape format so cropped by around 50% to remove lots of grass at sides.

Comments

4 comments

Comment posted by Keith Bauer on February 26, 2013 at 10:16 AM

Interesting looking bird. The light looks very harsh. I also am distracted by the black shape in the upper left corner.

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Comment posted by Martin Dunn on February 26, 2013 at 11:02 AM

Thanks Keith,

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Comment posted by Christine Adams on February 26, 2013 at 7:26 PM

Your exposure on this cool looking bird is right on which makes the rest seem a bit overdone. Maybe a little lower angle might have taken care of some of it. But I do like it.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on February 26, 2013 at 8:45 PM

Wild looking bird, Martin. Looks like a nice crisp image. The light looks like it was pretty harsh. I think I'd be tempted to do something about the dark crack in the rocks in the upper left-it kind of draws my eye.

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