I believe that's the correct ID. This was taken while feeding the birds, so I assumed it should go in Hand of Man. I used a splash of flash to clean up the whites on the bird.
Kind of an odd perspective - I wasn't quite sure how to crop this. I hope you enjoy the result.
2008:01:11 10:40:25
1dm3 with 70-200mm @ 90mm
1/1600 sec, f/10, Man, Eval, ISO 400
Flash exp comp: -1
(The JPG has done a number on the BG - darkening it and adding lovely artifacts.)
Ring-billed Gull it is. The whites appear pure white in some areas but if exposed as RAW you should be able to recover detail with no problem. The image shows quite nicely how the eyes of many birds actually point forward, thus giving them the potential for binocular vision and the ability to discern depth.
Dan
I do like the view. John made an interesting observation about the position of the eyes. It's a beautiful wingspread and I, too think that you should be able to recover more detail. Well done.
Do you find that using the flash "spooks" the birds in any way? I've been contemplating doing the same, but not sure if I'll ruin my chances to get more shots once I've "popped" them with flash. My cat sure doesn't like it!
Actually, I just double-checked the image in photoshop and couldn't find any single color value over about 251. Most of the brighter spots are around mid-240s. The original image was not overexposed and I took a lot of care to get this bright without going over. Maybe I still need to pull it down though so it doesn't appear overbright.
There was nothing spooking these birds. This image was full frame at 90mm - I actually added some canvas left and right.
Dan
I didn't mean that they were blown. I think that there is more detail in them......perhaps by lightening them some. I've found that full frame shown at the size here doesn't do justice the the detail that's present which may be the case here. It's a beautiful image.
Nice image and interesting view here. This could have gone in the wild and free forum since it's a wild bird and there are no HOM elements visible in the image. I think you did well exposing and processing the whites.
Hovering Ring-billed Gull...
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