Kelp Gull ( Juv )

[Stu Bowie]

As we had a long weekend in South Africa, I went down to the South Coast - south of Durban. We had a house on the beach, so I was able to shoot a couple of marine birds by just walking onto the beach.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/3200
F/5.6
ISO 640

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand Held

[Brian Barcelos]

I especially like gulls with juvenile plumage, Great job on the exposure and nice wing position. Love the sky/ocean BG and sharpness. I wish he gave you a better head angle and I'd also like more room to the right if you had some. Congrats

Brian

[Fabs Forns]

Very nice light and wing position. Nice catch light and good placement in frame. Head is on the clear from wings and change of color in horizon. Light angle not ideal (from low right side) but light is soft, so it's acceptable.
Way to go!

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the soft light, underwing details, fanned tail and eye contact. It would be even stronger if the far wing were further down.

[Dr.Pranay Rao Juvvadi]

Love the details and the light. The dual BG is awesome!

[Harshad Barve]

lovely details and great light, I am loving wing postion
TFS

[Dave Barnes]

I like the colour, comp, Bg, detail and light.
Stu is there a bit of noise below the wings?

[Kiran Poonacha]

beautiful one stuart, The two tone BG adds well to the brown bird.. congrats...

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a lot for the kind words.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Hey bro
Easy to add a bit more room on RHS. HA not quite ideal, but I very much like everything about your image, the light, pose, BG though an off center horizon would have probably been better.
Thanks for sharing. :)

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks mate. I actually had loads of room on the right, I just cropped this to vertical.