Pacific Gull

[Rob Drummond]

Our largest gull and certainly the one with the largest bill

1D2N 500/f4 handheld heavily overcast
ISO 400 f8 1/2000 exp comp +1/3

cheers
Rob

[Randy Stout]

Rob:

Your gull is sharp, and although I normally don't like merges of head and wing, I think the dark underside of the wing does show off his big bill well.

Your exposure is pretty close. You might have been able to get by with +2/3 of EC, which would bring up the darker areas a bit. The whites have a little room, as most measured around 232 or so at the hottest.

Shadow recovery will help some, but some noise started to creep in on the underside of the wings when using it.

To my eye, the image has a bit of a blue cast, and you could consider warming it up just a bit to taste.

Thanks for sharing.

Randy

[Harshad Barve]

Lovely pose and great eye
all points well coverd by Randy & agreed
TFS

[Kathy Reeves]

Wonderful BIF image. I agree with Randy that the underside of the wing looks a little dark on my monitor.

Kathy

[Brian Barcelos]

I agree with whats been said. I'd also like a little more room in front of him.
He does have a rather big beak for a gull. Never seen one of these.

Brian

[Simon Bennett]

Very sharp, shows the bill off really well.