Laughing Gull Frenzy at Sanibel Lighthouse

[Bob Pelkey]

Date/Time	23-Oct-2009 10:05:24
Make	Canon
Model	Canon EOS 5D Mark II
Flash Used	No
Focal Length	840 mm
Exposure Time	1/3200 sec
Aperture	f/5.6
ISO Equivalent	200
Exposure Bias	+1/3
White Balance
Metering Mode	matrix (5)
JPEG Quality
Exposure Program	aperture priority (3)
Focus Distance

Cropped, sharpened, lightened, tripod used.

[Phil Ertel]

Hi Bob, Nice action you capture. The pose of the bird with the fish is amusing. It appears to me that the birds are under exposed. From the look of the sky I would have dialed in at least 1 1/3 exposure compensation if not more. You could try and lighten it up but what out for noise. Thanks for sharing.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The captured action looks great, too bad it is backlit. If your original is RAW, I would try to remove the chromatic aberration and maybe try to lighten the birds some more.

[arash_hazeghi]

This is very sweet action you captured here, it is really amazing you got three of them in focus and in great pose. it sure deserve big credit :) However IQ as presented will prevent this image from going to the top, birds are somewhat dark and CA is very pronounced as noted by Axel. If you have the RAW, start from scratch and see if you can bring up the exposure, remove the CA and do better sharpening. TFS

[Hendri Venter]

I like the action and posture of the front bird. 1 - 1 1/3 over exposure would def have helped with the detail and would also give you a nice high key BG.