Long shutter-time

I think the species name is herring gull in English. I was after one with the eyes still rather sharp at 1/40-1/80 of a second, trying different times, and the gull flying towards me. Which isn't so easy, because you have a lot of gulls around you as soon as you have thrown the first fish or bread. Yes, of course I used some fish, freshly fished.

It's a little bit of a look-a-like to a - I think it's called - One-photo which I had in Audubon-Mag. last Spring, but this one is worse.

Canon 1 D Mark III, EF 70-200/2,8 at 170 mm. ISO 500, 1/50 s., aperture 14. I usually expose nearly everything manually, but this time I knew it would work with shutter-priority.

I could have gone down in ISO, but sometimes you are in the middle of it and you forget. And there are no problems with 1 D Mark III and ISO 500.

Wow.... I love this! Eyes and bill are razor sharp... Love the take off and wing tip splashes too!

Very cool image!

Steve

The eyes are wonderful and that wing splash really puts this over the edge. Terrific work.

Fantastic image. The dark background and white gull, the splashes, the blur, the sharpness - a study in contrasts. I love it.

Great capture, I like the wing action...Looks like he is going into warp drive...:D

You really nailed this one, not easy to get sharp heads in coming at you images. Love the dramatic dark background!

This is an absolute winner of an image. I still can't figure out how you got so much movement in the wings and yet the head is pin-sharp. Excellent work!

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I still can't figure out how you got so much movement in the wings and yet the head is pin-sharp. Excellent work!¨


The fact is that many birds can have their heads and eyes rather still, while the wings are flapping a lot. I have used long shuttertimes also at the waterholes, like by Bences waterhole hides in Hungary. I'll post some of these photos later, photographed at for Example 1/80 s.

But OK, I admit that it sometimes takes a few (?) photos that I have to delete.:D

I love this one. ESP the splash in the llc. Is this not a book cover???

It is the cover of the US version of Between the Wingtips - a fabulous book, highly recommended.

HI Artie,

no, it's another one. Rather different, but from the same direction and three years later.

Best,

Brutus

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I love this one. ESP the splash in the llc. Is this not a book cover???

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Ah, that black water and the sharp eye fooled me.