Western Gull (portrait)

This gull landed about 20 feet away from me while I was photographing some ducks on the ice at a local lake.

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40...esternGull.jpg

Canon 40D, 500mm L lens, ISO 1000, 1/1600 sec, @ f 7.1
Small crop on the right side of image.

Very nice portrait, I like the details, light and BG and might lighten the eye a bit more.

I like these tight headshots. Beautiful soft light. Good DOF to render the eye detail and bill nice and sharp. Some BG noise/Jpg artifact which may have been reduced by using a slightly lower ISO - seems you had enough shutter speed to buy a little ISO.

Thanks, Axel. I lightened the eye, but didn`t want to over do it though.

Thanks for your comments, Tony.
The gull landed on a pile of snow, and only stayed there for a few seconds, so I took what it offered me.

Hi Ed nice photo good exsposure looks good Brad