Gull (Head On)

[Chris Kotze]

Captured this at a local Pan and I quite like the flight angle. I value your comments

Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Lens 300 2.8f X2
SS 1/2000
ISO 500
f 5.6

[Wynand van Wyk]

I love the flight angle as well! Stunning background and detail captured. I like this a lot.

Very well done!

[Brendan Dozier]

Great head-on POV and open mouth pose on this, Chris! BG is awesome, and love the uniqueness of the one eye staring straight at you. Nice light, color, details and sharpness. Very minor, but wish for a little more contrast between the bill and head. Nice work!

[Stu Bowie]

Great head on capture here Chris, and I like the symmetrical wing position, and HA. The reeds in the BG certainly create lovely colours, and your comp works well. Last Sunday???

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Chris, great BG and very well composed. Good that you got that slight head turn. With this light angle, head-on HA would not have worked well. liked the wing position as well. Good AF job.

[Nico Steenberg]

Good job on the sharp focus Chris. Well exposed IMG with good colours and bg. A super shot !

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent light and sharpness

[Dave Leroy]

Very nice photo. I like the nice back and forth of the whites and blacks on the wings, splash of colour on the face, single eye staring out and great looking bg.

Symmetrical pose adds a lot also.

Dave

[Chris Kotze]

Thanks everyone it's much appreciated. Stu this was a couple of weeks back