Hi Lance, I think the bright right sun is your main enemy here....almost to the point of rim lighting and leaving the bulk of the gull in shadow. Reduced contrast, or shooting on overcast day are only solutions to this. Overexposing for the shadowed gull has really overexposed the water
May have been better if sun was behind you AND IMO, a lower angle would be better and put those water highlights on one oof plane
Hi - you are correct of course - shooting into the sun. What I was really trying to do was to get the waterry type backgound effect and have a rim highlight around the bird but all still correctly exposed.
You actually did very well Lance I like trying different approaches and with the conditions you had might have been the best option Water sure looks good. For most of these images I like using fill flash Actually find myself setting +3 on the flash
Composition wise I would like to have seen the back of the water circle Works just like body parts for birds !! Don't want to clip them !!! Keep trying different images !!!!
Hi Lance
This Red-billed Gull and it's NZ endemic cousin the Black-billed Gull are two of my favourite gulls in New Zealand.
I like the space above the head and the strong ripples so have kept them in my re-crop.
Cheers: Ian Mc
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