Laughing Gull

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Laughing Gull

Went to a local pond, before a club meeting, to look for some ducks. None to be found so decided to work on my BIF skills. The gulls will almost always provide photo opps.
Used a square crop on this as I felt it worked best for the situation. Could have added some canvas and made it horizontal , but liked the look of this. Interested in your opinions.

800ISO f5.6 at 1/5000th
70/200mm f2.8

Very nice!! I do a lot of squarish crops when it fits the subject, but this one feels like an already great image could be even stronger with a little more on the left.

Hi Joe,
Tack sharp and a really nice sky with the wispy clouds. Very hard to get tack sharp with an incoming bird so well done choosing the high SS
I like the comp but think I would prefer if you took some off the bottom to above your signature.
A couple of house cleaning issues- I see some dust spots in RUC above the wing and a sharpening halo around the lower wing.
Hope all is well with you and yours,
gail

I like the flight angle, wing position and clouds add to the BG. I like Gail's composition suggestion. Nice image Joe.

Nice head on pose and I like the BG with some clouds in it. Techs look good too. Well captured

Love the exposure with the clouds on the sky. Square crop doesn't work for me personally.

Nice incoming flight shot, Joe. I guess the squera crop goes well whit this pose.

Nice in flight pose, good capture.