Laughing Gulls Mating

[Juan Tolentino]

I captured this image last week at Fort DeSoto Park, Florida, with the Nikon D500 Handheld and AF-S Nikkor 200-500mm 1-5.6E ED VR
ISO 800
f7.1
1/2000
500mm
Manual Mode
Processed on LR and PS.
Crop < 25%


All C & C's will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks for looking

JT

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hi Juan, good behavior image. The exposure, whites and blacks look good on my display. The image feels a little tight, maybe more room on the right and left. Thank you for sharing.

[John Mack]

Nice capture with the full wing spread and mouth open on the top bird. I like the background as well.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Ooh, this is so appealing! Perfect exposure, great colours, and the head-on view of the behaviour is excellent. Yes to being a touch tight left and right, but this ticks all the other boxes for me.

[Juan Tolentino]

Thank you for the comments. Added some canvas and applied a selective color layer to the background to make it more "ocean blue". What do you think?

[Daniel Cadieux]

Yes! The added room has paid off in spades! Just careful with the wingtips, a bit of blue subtly clouding over those now. I could go with either as far as colour goes.

[Juan Tolentino]

Yes! The added room has paid off in spades! Just careful with the wingtips, a bit of blue subtly clouding over those now. I could go with either as far as colour goes.

I wasn't careful enough, here's the repost with the blue from the wingtips removed