I lived in NY for most of my adult life. When I started photographing in the 80s there was an amazing gull colony adjacent to the parking lots at Captree State Park south of Bayshore, Long Island. After they capped all the big dumps, the gull populations crashed and the colony is only a memory. But old habits die hard. I am staying at my Mom's in Holbrook and had this afternoon free so it was back to Captree to photography some Herring Gulls. I have very little on them on digital.
This backlit breeding plumage Herring was photographed against a pink western sky with the handheld 400mm f/4 L DO lens and the EOS-1D MIII. ISO 1600. Evaluative metering + 2 1/3 stops off of the grey sky set manually. Fill flash on camera at -1 stop.
Don't be shy. All comments welcome. artie
ps: the white glow on the back of the neck is the rim light as it is in the RAW file.







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