landing gear down!

[Scott Grant]

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1105/3168444990_463b3752d7_o.jpg

taken this past weekend in Corner Brook, Newfoundland. maybe a first year great black backed? i could be wrong here.

shot from a vehicle with a D300, 300mm f4, and 1.7X converter using 9 point dynamic focus.

manual mode
ISO 500
f9
1/400th sec

in post i had to use quick masks to clone out three gull heads on the lower portion of the image. i contemplated cropping vertically at 5X7 but decided in the end to go with a square crop.

thanks all!

SG

[Doug Brown]

I would move the bird to the right just a bit and probably go with a rectangular/vertical crop. I like the wing position and the dangling feet. I just wish we had a bit more eye contact.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the pose and agree with Doug's crop suggestion and wish there were a bit less wing blur.

[Ivan Miksik]

I also like the wing posiition and agree with cropping suggestion, however it's a nice image!

[Stu Bowie]

I like the posture too. Take a bit off the right, add to the bottom and you have the perfect crop, as suggested above. Still, well captured Scott.