Yellow Legged Gull, Salton Sea, Fish provided by Gull(s)
400DO,1.4xTC II, 1/2000,f8,ISO 640,EC -0.7
Temp 112,Humidity 60%(!! just rained, muggy), Usual hordes of flies present.
Seems very contrasty and saturated to me as well as having a little too much room on top and not enough below for my tastes.
Whites look about right and love the bird and fish together too
My sympathies on the INTENSE weather conditions you endured! A fine portrait composition with the fish and a nice water BG. I would like a bit more room on the right.
I'm at Doug/Jims flight photography workshop at Bolsa Chica this week, so I had the advantage of an expert looking at source image and posted image -- Doug Brown looked at the original -- Its sharp. His comment is "wet bird" - that always fools people. Colors looked fine (not over-saturated) on his calibrated macbook. Image is 90% of originalmage. No possibility of adding space to right - it was on a dike made of rocks, and an extreme out-of-focus rock was just to the right of the image. We'll look at the processing later this week to see if there is anything additional there.
thanks for the comments.