April Theme: California Gull

[Brendan Dozier]

Took this down at La Jolla back in January. Not exactly a difficult species to shoot, but I liked being able to see the beautiful details of the eye, bill, and feathers up-close. Cropped & rotated image for diagonal & ROT positioning, lightened eye, removed blue cast from feathers, curves, NR, sharpening.

7D, 70-200
1/500
5.6
ISO 1000

C & C welcome & appreciated,

- Brendan

[Dumay de Boulle]

Great exposure and the IQ looks great...i am looking on a different monitor to my usual one...But I see a bit of noise in the BG, but if not my apologies...Nice one Brendan

[Robert Holguin]

Beautiful portrait. Well exposed and tack sharp. There is a little noise but does not bother me. Well done.

[bhavya joshi]

Nice portraits, I like diagonal angle and eye..pure sharp.. image..
Great one..

[John Guastella]

Wonderful image, great detail, but also very smooth and creamy. Which 70-200 was this?

If it were mine I would run some BG NR The light seems to be coming from the left, so the right portion of the bird's head seems to be a bit darker - perhaps some dodging to even out the exposure.

John

[Brendan Dozier]

Thanks for the feedback, folks. Will do a tad more NR on BG, and agree with John about evening the light out a bit.