Grey headed Gull portrait

[Stu Bowie]

On my recent trip to Cape Town, I took a walk through the small harbour of Hout Bay, and decided to take a few shots of the different gulls that were there. I was amazed to see the detail and colour of their eyes. The BG is distant sea.

Canon 1D Mark IV
100-400 @ 400mm
1/1600
F/7.1
ISO 400

Exp comp 0

[Daniel Cadieux]

Gulls are amazing creatures, not enough people pay careful attention to them IMO. Details and exposure look great. I like the feathers sticking straight up above the eye. I feel that if you had a bit more below and right that would have been ideal.

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great details and sharpness.

[Mike Milicia]

Excellent portrait ... nice head angle and detail and wonderful BG!

Maybe a bit less room at the top.

[Robert Holguin]

Excellent head shot.
Whites look very good, excellent feather detail, and love the background.
Makes the gull really pop.
The details in the eye are great.
Well done.

[MohsenVahedipour]

Great eye, feathers detail & HA. Lovely BG.

[David Salem]

Great looking head study Stuart. Tons of feather detail and great colors. Awesome looking eye and I like the texture of the bill. Nice work

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks for the feedback and comments everyone.

[Satish Ranadive]

"Master piece" portrait Sir.
What a lovely details and colors in this portrait?
Great IQ.
Love the wonderful eye,fine erect fine feathers on head,BG through nostrils and lovely composition.

Regards,
Satish.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Have to agree gulls are underrate and when you get a good look at a super image like this it reminds me to take some more! Great shot Stu, as ever the techs are spot on the detail is excellent.