Northern Gannet

[Mike Milicia]

EOS-1D Mk III, 70-200mm f/2.8L @ 200mm, 1/1600, f/4, ISO 400
Manual Flash at Full Power
About 90% of Full Frame

Full Frame width plus a bit of new canvas on the right.
Small crop top and bottom.
Removed OOF wing tip protruding into left side.

Photographed on a hazy morning last week on Bonaventure Island during Chris Dodds' Gannets Galore workshop.

Looking forward to your comments and critiques!

[Doug Brown]

The high-key looks suits the Gannet. I like the webbed feet against the white sky. Nice exposure and sharpness. How did you meter?

[Mike Milicia]

How did you meter?
Light was fairly constant so started with +2 off the sky (Evaluative), fine tuned by checking the histogram on test images that included the brightest parts of any of the thousands of Gannets sitting in front of me in the same light, and then locked in the exposure using Manual Mode.
Made small adjustments whenever light did change.

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

beautiful pose,wing position,exposure!!!

[Stu Bowie]

Excellent exposure Mike, and love the landing angle. The gannet itself stands out against the light BG, but the wing tips and feet really pop even more. Great capture.

[Harshad Barve]

Beautiful wing pose and exposure
TFS

[Juan Aragonés]

Very artistic image Mike and very well exposed I must say. The soft light and the white background works very fine in my opinion

[Daniel Cadieux]

I only wish we could see more of either the top or bottom of the wings. Otherwise neat image, I like the overlight effect of the white on white.