Hi Lance,
I like your early morning image and capture. Your feathered friend need just a tad of CW rotation towards you. He is too centered in frame and the eye is a tad soft. I did some minor modifications...:D see if you like. I cropped 1/4 from the bottom to focus more attention on the bird, and I cropped from the left to off set the subject. I applied selective sharpening on the eye and dodged the area around the eye to lighten it a wee bit. You have good detaild in the feathers...:cool:
Hi Lance, the blue of the water and sky is gorgeous and I like Gus's crop suggestion but I would keep those little blades of grass in the foreground. It has a serene feeling.
For some reason, I can't help comparing this image with Carole Wiley's "juvi tern". Both have the birds facing right and both have a raised part of the land standing between the birds and the photographers. Comments on "juvi tern" includes cropping the foreground. I think it could be done in the case of juvi tern is because the tern's legs are visible and so the cropping will not hurt the image of the tern. Here, no such suggestion is made and I think it's because the legs of the gull are not visible. And if suggestion is made to crop the foreground of this photo, the final image may not look pretty. It seems like if you have a clear view of the bird, you don't need a foreground but if you don't, you may need the help of a foreground to save your photo? :)
I think the missing of the legs here is an issue. I also find the oof, dark image of the land afar is not helping here. I think if it were shot from a higher perspective, may be the result would be better.
hi mate!! one suggestion i might offer is to have gotten just a tad higher to get his entire head into the blue water. the horizon line intersecting his head is a little distracting. you got some nice detail in the bird and i really like the environment!! you guys have some cool looking birds over there!!
The EXp is good. You needed to be a bit higher; that would have placed the bird totally against the water and allowed us to see at least the legs. Good head angle. What a bill on that bird! Lastly, the bird could have been placed a bit more back in the frame.
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Hi - Thanks everyone - yes wasn't sure this one worked. (Dont worry I do have some more from this weekend)
Spent the weekend getting down and dirty with the Terns - will post some soon.
Also have some shots of some captive birds at the royal melbourne zoo, nothing fantastic about the photo's you are very limited to viewing angles,but thought they might be nice to give you a look at some of the more exotic species. Will post them in the coming days.
Twilight Juvy Pacfic Gull
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