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    Default Silver Gull with broken beak?

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    Taken recently, but didn't realize that its beak was injured. Would have liked a better HA.

    7Dii, 100-400@400mm, 1/3200th sec, f6.3, iso800, manual mode HH. Cheers.

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    Hi Paul, super soft and technic. congratulations

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    Thank you very much Volkan.

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    Even without a perfect head angle his face really pops in this frame. Looks like he was pretty close given the you don't have a ton of depth of field across the wings.

    I'm not sure what that extra beak-thing is, but I've seen Herring Gulls with something similar here in the US. I don't think it's actually part of the beak so much as
    some sort of inappropriate fleshy extension which grows our of the gape/chin. Fun frame regardless.

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    looks like he ate a crab leg and the spike is coming out :D
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    Paul, nice frame.

    I've not seen gulls with such red beak and feet. Matches the eye ring :-)

    Probably would wish for near wing to match rear position but very nice clarity. A touch of extra noise in the gull's underside it looks like.

    Just a tad of halos around the beak on large and small monitor.

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    Neat looking gull. Too bad about that bill. Love that red eye ring.

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    Thank you all. Brian: Not sure why you're seeing halos, but will check out the raw file again...thanks.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paul Burdett View Post
    Thank you all. Brian: Not sure why you're seeing halos, but will check out the raw file again...thanks.
    EDIT: Paul it's not very noticeable, just caught my eye on closer inspection. Probably not even worth mentioning. Great photo!
    Last edited by Brian Sump; 06-23-2020 at 10:05 PM.

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    No problem Brian...always good to have a keen eye! Cheers.

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