Theme: Ring-billed Gull

[Karl Egressy]

I was shooting against water and terrestial background, trying out using sorrounding AF points. (C.Fn III. 8. 2.)
It worked most of the time, but now I'm back to single point again.
Thanks for looking.


Canon EOS-1D Mark IV
Manual Exposure
Tv 1/1600
Av 5.6
Lens EF400mm f/5.6L USM

[Randy Stout]

Karl:

I like the green background here, we so often see sky or water BG for the gulls.

Nice dorsal display, angle in frame, crop.

There is good contrast in the feathers, but the IQ is a little soft. May be a matter of more sharpening only. How big of a crop was this?

Looks like someone has been munching on his primaries

Cheers

Randy

[dankearl]

I think the BG is really nice, sets the bird off very well.
The feather detail is nice and the gull is colored nicely.
It does look like a big crop, but maybe just a downsizing file issue?

[Paul Guris]

I like the pose and the background is gorgeous. I think the bird is a bit too dark and the contrast a little too high. In particular the darkness and contrastiness (real word?) of the bird's brown coverts and secondaries doesn't look natural to me for this species.