White-backed Vulture

Shot taken yesterday at the local zoo. Processed in Lightroom, Photoshop CC and Silver Efex Pro.

[Joan Robillard]

Fabulous.

[Tracie Broadhead]

fav-awesome

[Taffy]

Fav!

[HTGT]

Ever ready to pounce!

[Connie]

Cool gothic looking capture!

[J A Byrdlip]

Isn't he cute?

[Hubregt Visser]

Looking great in B&W. Can you explain what you did in Silver Efex Pro? is it one of the presets?

[Leon Buijs]

@hjv In Silver Efex not that much, just tweaking the levels to get the b&w conversion I want. The main work is done in Photoshop with carefully selecting the subject and using a mask to isolate it, than using a black background layer and a lot of tweaking to get the light and details on the edges correct.