Gypaète Barbu | [ Sizes: Orig | Large | Med | Small | Thumb ] |
Gypaète Barbu seen when climbing Mont Charvin, in Massif des Aravis.
A male can weigh up to 6 kgs and its total wing width 285cms.
It is part of the Vulpture family.
French Alps
As I was asked earlier on, here are the technical details of the shot :
Nikon D80 with Sigma 70-300mm ; 270mm - f/8 - 1/2500 - ISO 800.
Comments
[ Post a Comment ]| Lodewijk | Beautiful | | 
Voted 10/10 | Hi antoine that's a real beauty!!! | | Posted Aug 7, 2008 10:07 am |
 | | Andino | Re: Beautiful | | 
Hasn't voted | Thank you Lo... I was really happy with the shot too ;o) | | Posted Aug 7, 2008 10:16 am |
| Herb | This is amazing... | | 
Voted 10/10 | Congrats for this wonderful shot! | | Posted Aug 8, 2008 3:06 am |
| | Andino | Re: This is amazing... | |
Hasn't voted | Danke Herb ! | | Posted Aug 8, 2008 7:19 am |
| Mark Doiron | Remarkable! | | 
Voted 10/10 | A shot like that is tough to get. Great job! --mark d. | | Posted Aug 8, 2008 7:00 am |
| | Andino | Re: Remarkable! | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks Mark. I wad indeed pleased with the way it came out. | | Posted Aug 8, 2008 7:19 am |
| David_Holland | Great!!! | | 
Voted 10/10 | With a 70-300m that beautiful bird must be very close?? | | Posted Aug 8, 2008 7:06 am |
| | Andino | Re: Great!!! | |
Hasn't voted | Maybe 50m away... I cropped a little to highlight the bird in the picture. Thanks for visiting ! | | Posted Aug 8, 2008 7:20 am |
| Day Hiker | ISO / shutter speed | | 
Voted 10/10 | I am curious about the 1/2500s shutter and ISO 800. Would it be a problem for subject movement or camera shake to shoot at 1/320 and ISO 100 or 1/640 and ISO 200, instead? Or did you already have the ISO at 800 before you saw the bird? | | Posted Aug 8, 2008 5:19 pm |
| | Andino | Re: ISO / shutter speed | |
Hasn't voted | It was cloudy at the time and I wanted to be sure to have a sharp image with my long lens.
ISO 400 would have been enough for sure. But with a fast moving animal, you don't want to miss your chance for an ISO matter. Thanks for your interest ! | | Posted Aug 9, 2008 5:05 am |
| jtree | Wow! | | 
Hasn't voted | I love it! Don | | Posted Aug 8, 2008 8:08 pm |
| | Andino | Re: Wow! | |
Hasn't voted | Glad you do !
Thanks for passing by. | | Posted Aug 9, 2008 5:05 am |
| Marcsoltan | Hands down | | 
Voted 10/10 | the best bird-in -flight photo I have seen. | | Posted Oct 4, 2008 10:26 pm |
| | Andino | Re: Hands down | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks my friend !! | | Posted Oct 22, 2008 8:09 am |
| BCJ | Just amazing | | 
Voted 10/10 | The feeling of being in a place where you could even get that kind of shot is what makes me love climbing. So incredible that you were able to get such a clear photo of one of these giants in flight. Fantastic work! | | Posted Oct 22, 2008 11:17 am |
| | Andino | Re: Just amazing | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks for your kind comment, much appreciated !! | | Posted Nov 3, 2008 6:18 am |
| mck4824 | Amazing capture | | 
Voted 10/10 | This is truly a great capture, ray | | Posted Apr 22, 2010 2:34 pm |
| | Andino | Re: Amazing capture | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks mate ! | | Posted Jun 8, 2010 7:18 am |
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