Gulls In Flight action

[Vikram Agrawal]

I snapped these two gulls in flight scrapping over food. They tend to fly quite randomly when they are fighting over food so i was a bit lucky to get a few frames. Unfortunately, did not manage to get both birds as sharp as i would have liked. Probably should have used a higher f-number at the expense of shutter speed and also tried to track the bird in front.

Cropping+NR on Sky+Sharpening.
Camera: Canon 7D
Lens: 100-400L
Av: f7.1
Tv: 1/6400
EC: -2/3
ISO: 800
Focal Length: 390mm

Any C&C welcome.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/56022791/IMG_5809.jpg

[Daniel Cadieux]

Nice action, but ditto on your own critique. You had enough SS to go for more DOF if this is the type of image you were anticipating or hoping for.

[Marina Scarr]

Nice action capture here. Love the pose on the nearest bird. You probably didn't need the 1/6400th of a second speed and could therefore have gone for more DOF. Like the way you have placed the birds in the frame and they look good against the blue sky.

[Vikram Agrawal]

Thanks Daniel.
Thanks Marina, I agree 1/6400 was probably a bit much, I should have gone for a higher f-number.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Vikram, good self critique...if light is good and BG is sky, 'stop down' is a good thumb rule to follow. excellent moment.