Have been away for the past week on spring break--so to speak, as it was cold, blowy, and very wet in Norfolk, VA, where my family lives. Anyway, got out birding, and found gulls and other birds on the Cheasapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel. I played with a bunch of gulls just off the bridge on the Eastern Shore of Maryland; this is one of a series of photos I took baiting them with doritos. Sorry to pollute their digestive systems with the stuff, but they seemed to love it--as models go, they are cheap and willing labor!
Olympus SP-570UZ, 92mm zoom; ISO 64, f5.6, 1/640sec. Minimal cropping, adjustments to lighting, contrast, and saturation in PS Raw, and some sharpening of the eye and beak in PSE 7.
Hi Massimo,
The image is a tad under exposed...recommend on opening up the mid-tones in the eye and selective sharpen it...looking forward to your next one...:cool:
My crop makes it kind of small but you get the idea. Would like to see some of the low and left gone since doesn't do a lot for the image. The beautiful eye and beak is the neat part and would like showing in bigger in frame !! Really nice image !!!
.... would like it even better with the eye slightly lower
Thanks for your comments--and particularly for Alfred Forn's repost, which I like very much. It is indeed kind of small, but as luck would have it, I took another of the same gull, and this repost is FULL FRAME.
Sharpened and opened up eye and beak, and also lightened the whole image.
Gull portrait
