Blackheaded gull (Chroicocephalus ridibundus)
Hand held capture taken on an early morning walk
Olympus: E-M1X
Focal Length : 600.0mm
Focal length in 35 mm film : 1202.0mm
Exposure mode : Manual exposure
ISO Sensitivity : 1250
Exposure compensation : 0.0 EV
Shutter : 1/1600 sec
Aperture : F8
AC/PSCC
While an interesting behavior shot, the lower bird and parts of the upper bird's wing being in pretty deep shade just kills the image as far as I'm concerned.
Hi Jon, I quite like this because of the behavioural aspect, the trailing water adds.
How sharp I'm not sure and with that set up I guess you were around f/11??? I would loose the back bit in the LH corner, but I do find the blue quite dominating, just reducing the balance evens out the colour and ditto there is more for the darker wings whilst still retaining a good blacks to white tonal range. Perhaps with less above ie 16x9 might also offer another option.
TFS
Steve
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In better light this would be a cracker I think. Overall though I like the dynamic mood here.
I don't mind the bird in the shade but I wish that the attacking bird was lit completely. That said I like it better than most of the folks above :)
with love, artie
ps: with images like this made at relatively close range even f/16 will not come anywhere near being enough d-o-f.
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Hi Artie, in what connection was the f/16 DoF related too??
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Well captured Jon....The shadows on the bird below actually makes this frame more interesting to me...The only thing that bugs me is the position of the wing nearest the viewer on the upper Gull...
Will
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