Juvenile Yellow legged gull

[shane shacaluga]

As some of you may be aware I am contemplating the jump to FF soon and luckily a friend allowed me to briefly test her Nikon D600 with my lens and TC combo

These juvenile gulls were doing fly-bys over a nearby cliff so decided to take a few shots

I tried a few different settings but tried to see how good the sensor was for shadow recovery. With my D7000 i would have had awful grain under the wings from raising the shadow but here it kept very clean

AF was more consistent that my D7000 too but I could not put it through its paces against cluttered background

Comments and critiques welcome

Settings

300f4 + 1.7x TC
1/2500
f8
ISO 500

[Grace Scalzo]

I am not familiar with Nikon gear but the quality looks great to me. The image itself is pleasing with nice sharpness, detail, and good separation of wing and bill.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Nice gull, sharpness and pose. Under wing details looks good too.

[shane shacaluga]

Thanks guys. I was quite pleased with how clean the image file was.