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    Default Herring gull portrait

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    D300, 300 f/4AF-S, Kenko 1.4TC, hand-held but balanced on one knee while kneeling on the other.

    1/1600, f7.1, ISO220, pattern metering, EV +/-0, distance 8.9m.

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    Very nice,Sharp image.

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    nice crisp details here and it seems you were on eye-level?
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    Lovely close-in image of a very common gull, well-done! Great detail of bill, eye and head feathers! TFS!

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    Great sharpness and eye captured. Like the comp and colours in this

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    Quote Originally Posted by Morkel Erasmus View Post
    nice crisp details here and it seems you were on eye-level?
    Too crisp for me as in over-sharpened and the head is turned away to boot.... EXP is good. Nice BKGR with rather harsh light and a shadow of the brow on the eye itself....
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