Immature Pacific Gull Top View

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

This is an immature Pacific Gull on the verge of chamging into the adult form from an all brown colour to the beautiful Black and White with Yellow and Red beak of the adult.

Captured on a 5D MKII with a 70-200 f/4L + 1.4X Con. (98-280) @ 280mm, 1/2500 sec., f/6.3, ISO-400, Pattern Metering, 0 step, TV, Hand Held.

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[Ilija Dukovski]

Very powerful bird. The image is bit too soft, was it a large crop?
You had very strong back light but did quite good with that.
Also I wish you had better HA, not easy with a shot from the back.

[Doug Brown]

I like the wing spread and the fanned tail feathers Chris. The detail looks rather coarse; was the bird significantly underexposed in camera and then recovered? I would have expected some positive EC. The main issue for me however is the head angle; I always try to get the bird flying towards me.

[Daniel Cadieux]

The bird flying away and the suspect details are the main concerns here. Good view of the top of the wings, I like the white shafts of the primaries showing well.

[Ramon M. Casares]

Wonderfulll, light, back view, colors and comp. It looks like a heavy crop as detail is very poor.
Congratulaitons.

[Christopher C.M. Cooke]

The detail looks rather coarse; was the bird significantly underexposed in camera and then recovered?

You picked it in one!:)

Yes a heavy Crop to get the file size down, rarely seems to work, I need to learn quite a bit more about resizing for posting on the web.

Thanks for all your comments.:)