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I wouldn't call this an Aussie icon, but it sort of is. Found around local waterways, beaches and the like. A bit of a pest when you try and have lunch by the seaside. However, rather handsome up close.
http://australasiaforum.net/australa...ach=1162;image
30D, 300/4L with 1.4x, f/6.3, 1/1,250<SUP>th</SUP>. Cropped a little for composition. 430EX with BB, at around -2 from about three meters (ten feet) away.
Good-looking bird, great eye contact and composition. I don't know what the light was like but the whites look a bit reddish and there is a sharpening halo around the bill.
Can add to move the eye placement a bit left and lower Just love that eye and the overall feel Bg is just perfect for the good looking bird !!! Excellent !!!
I love the head placement and eye contact. Good job!
Good work here with the exposure, like it as is, love the fact you got the hole in the beak to stand out...
Very nice potrait Akos. Has a slight reddish cast.
Nice head study Akos.
I agree with Al in regards to eye placement. Very nice profile image of this bird.
Hey Dude, Goog job on this lovely gull. Looks a bit dark on my screen.
Was it photographed in early or late lights as having this purplish cast.
Otherwise nice. I would have placed the biord to the left and down a bit.
Keep up posting :)
Szimi
Often seen on cricket pitches as well! Very nice portrait.
