Gull BIF practice

[Charleen Ratcliff]

I enjoy gulls, so practicing my BIF work with them is no hardship...

Taken on 8 Dec 14; Nikon D7100; 70-200 F2.8; full manual settings at ISO 400 / 1/1250 sec / focal length 130 / pattern metering / cropped with some minor editing in LR

[Doug Brown]

I like the soft light and fanned tail feathers. Sharpness could be better; this could be caused by not-aggressive-enough sharpening in LR, by image softness at the time of capture, or by some combination of the two. Your shutter speed seems adequate, but your DOF at f/2.8 is marginal. Next time around I would go for a minimum of f/4, and push your ISO a little higher. I'll let others comment on exposure, head angle, and composition.

[Vijayashankara Nanjegowda]

It is a good shot, I know how difficult to get a shot of flying birds....

[Vijayashankara Nanjegowda]

A recent one, shot a month ago, I went on clicking following him, this is the best one I got....

[Charleen Ratcliff]

Thanks for your kind response...they are very hard to shoot accurately...your shot is not bad at all!

[Charleen Ratcliff]

Thank you Doug...I try to keep my ISO as low as possible to eliminate noise which I seem to get when shooting with this lens and camera body...it was also extremely overcast but take your comments on board, but for my eyes, I think it is one of the sharper shots I have taken.

Thanks again

[Charleen Ratcliff]

Oh, should have said that I have only been using a DSLR since Feb 2014 - a beginner! and I only have Lightroom!

[Vanessa caccamise]

Love the fanned tail and sky color!