Juvenile black headed gull - last one

[Luis Patacao]

Hi everyone, this is the last of the small reflections series on the black headed gull and this time a juvenile in its nice winter plumage.

Coments and critiques apreciated!


I`m looking good por Patacão, no Flickr


Info:

D7000 + 70-300mm VR, shot at 300mm f/5.6
Adjustments in LR(and thanks to Diane Miller, the workflow improved) included:
- clarity, vibrance and a bit of saturation
- fill light
- Cropped, around 70% of the original (i have some dificulties finding this %)

In Photoshop, resized, sharpen and denoise.

[Diane Miller]

Great pose!! Looks very sharp. The whites look good, and well separated from the water. The darkest tones might be just a little darker than I would choose, but it's a difficult choice to get shadow detail without losing too much contrast. That's something that will evolve as you continue to process images.

I get my % crop by multiplying the horizontal and vertical pixels, and dividing that into the number from the original capture. Kind of interesting to compare to my guess.

[Iain Barker]

Hi Luis

I like this photo and and really like the nice clean foreground and background, and also the composition. To me the front wing looks sharper than the head and I wonder if this is where you focus was.

Iain

[tomroper]

Nice image, it's sharp. Great reflection, the contrast might be a little high for me but that can be toned down. Good job on the whites being white.

[Luis Patacao]

Great pose!! Looks very sharp. The whites look good, and well separated from the water. The darkest tones might be just a little darker than I would choose, but it's a difficult choice to get shadow detail without losing too much contrast. That's something that will evolve as you continue to process images.

I get my % crop by multiplying the horizontal and vertical pixels, and dividing that into the number from the original capture. Kind of interesting to compare to my guess.

Thanks for the advice and tip on the crop % Diane.

[Luis Patacao]

Hi Luis

I like this photo and and really like the nice clean foreground and background, and also the composition. To me the front wing looks sharper than the head and I wonder if this is where you focus was.

Iain

Hi Ian and thanks for the support. I can`t confirm this right now but yes, i believe the focus was on the closest wing, but i believe that your feeling can also be caused by the amout of light hiting the wing vs the lower amount of light hiting the head. I will check this.

[Luis Patacao]

Nice image, it's sharp. Great reflection, the contrast might be a little high for me but that can be toned down. Good job on the whites being white.

Thanks tom, the whites are super important!