Ring-billed Gull

[Joseph Przybyla]

I captured this image yesterday morning at a local lake. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.

Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/1000 F/11 Matrix Metering - 1/3 EV ISO 450
Post processed in Lightroom 5 and Photoshop Elements 10
Cropped for composition

[Shawn Zierman]

The image quality is very nice, particularly the details on the head/face area. I really like the way their bills look at this stage in development. Exposure work looks solid. Nice subject isolation, though a different crop presentation that puts a little more focus on the head area with more of the oof body cropped out is worth considering...basically less space on bottom and a little more on top, with a little more room in front of the bird too....Would not want to lose that wind blown? feather on the right hand side though...nice detail there.

[Sonny Rostami]

Very Nice Like the details and the soft background you have here.