vulture

saw this vulture at the zoo in the rain. It look miserable so i had to take a picture of it haha. Any comments are welcomed. thanks in advance
http://i59.photobucket.com/albums/g2...O/DSC_0108.jpg

man, this is a very eerie shot. You've captured the essense of this guy IMO. A happy shot of a vulture woudn't have worked but this shot is just as miserable as the bird. lol. I didn't mean that in a negative way. This could work well as a dark poster of halloween or any other dark subject.

Eerie is a good word for this image, and I love it! The mood this creates is right out of an old horor movie. The composition is right on for me and I love the water drop on the end of the beak. I would like to see version that was just a tad bit brighter for comparison and to see a bit more detail in the bottom right corner. I think brightening this photo would be a mistake and take away from the mood it creates, but I'm kind of curiouse as to what it would look like.

What a great find! Yes, eerie is right.

I would like to see the image shifted to the right to put the head more off-center and towards the left edge of the frame a little. I think it may give it more tension and fill the frame with more of the dark body.

The nose drop is a nice touch. Perhaps a second or two later would have allowed the drop to be just about ready to fall off. I know, easy to critique now verses seeing all that when it was actually happening :p

And I like how the out of focus highlight just behind the beak tip allows the beak to be nicely outlined.

Good job :thumbsup:

i dig it! love the composition and the colors too.. but maybe i would have tried to crop a little at the bottom

Wow this great. It kind of reminds me of "lord of the rings" when I first saw it.

that is a great picture. i love it.

yea, its great and has a gloomy mood, though i think i would have been better had the bird had its eyes open, give it more of a misery look to it ya know ;)

haha thanks for all the great comments