Gull in the Clouds

[Bill Foxworthy]

Canon 40D, 70-200 f/4L 11/12 This week
1/5000, f/4.5, ISO400m 580 EXII Flash

[Linda Robbins]

Bill, this is an exceptionally pretty image. Love the clouds and blue sky background and the pose is great. Would like to see a little more room on both sides. Very nice image!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Great pose and BG. I agree regarding more room and there are some artifacts near the wings and BG maybe due to the compression since it is only 24kB.

[Bill Foxworthy]

Thanks, noticed noise in Blue sky, now removed
Thanks Bill

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Bill,
Lovely pose. Nice bg. I agree that some more space would have been better. Is it a full frame image? The artifcats are still visible around the wing tips.
Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Bill Foxworthy]

Thanks Sabyasachi,
This is not a full frame bu was close image and cropped to this size. I just looked at the Raw image and thiose jaggies are present there on the top feathers. Could it be feather fly out or something. .
I was suprised at using shutter priority helped so much on these images.

[Judy Lynn Malloch]

Love the pose and wonderful head turn in this capture Bill. I too would love to see a tad more room all round. Thanks for sharing.

[Fabs Forns]

Beautiful pose and light, if a bit tight in the frame.

[Tony Whitehead]

Beautiful colours and pose. The jaggies on the wings are not an issue, they are just the wavy edge of the flight feather. The blockiness in the blue BG is JPG compression artifact from compressing to a small file size. If saved as a higher quality jpg with a file size closer to 200 Kb than 20Kb they would be small enough not to be visible

[Doug Brown]

Congrats on a nice one Bill! Agree with the advice given by everyone. Thanks for posting!

[Bill Foxworthy]

Thanks Judy, Fabs, Tony and Doug for your comments. Tony, I did not know that saving so small would make artifacts like that. Appreciate it.

[Arthur Morris]

Lovely pose, EXP and sky. A bit tight as noted, but not much. Even in the repost the BKGR is quite lumpy/funky... Also a bit over-SAT-ed...