Herring Gull bank

[dankearl]

Taken yesterday, nice weather in the NW, and nice low light.
Taken at 1 pm. Winter makes life easy.

1/1600
f5
iso400
420mm (300f2.8 w/ 1.4)

DSC_4899nx2.jpg

[Dan Behm]

Dan,
Real nice look at this species, love the topside and angle of the bird to you, great eye contact as well

Dan

[ramesh anantharaman]

This is one brilliant image Dan. Love the eye contact. Just tried some thing here. i added some canvas to the left and the top and bottom. and just adjusted the darks and brights on the bg a little. pls do let me know if it works for you.

[dankearl]

Ramesh, thanks for taking the time to look and work on it and it looks good.
I just run noise reduction on the BG, I have been hesitant to do more as I have messed up
A lot of photos in the past trying to do more.
I appreciate and like your repost.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Great pose, wing position and nice sharp detail with good exp..>I would like to see more space left Nicely done!

[Wayne Richardson]

Hi Dan

Very nice capture, but too tight for my tastes in your original post & even Ramesh's re-post requires a bit more more space.

BTW, this is a Glaucous-winged Gull. Look at the dark grey primaries & reddish pink eye ring. These would be black & yellow (respectively) on Herring Gull.

Cheers: Wayne

[Ofer Levy]

Nice and sharp with lovely pose. Here is a repost with a more balanced composition which allows the bird enough room to 'fly into'...

[Melissa Groo]

Ofer's repost takes this over the top, the extra room adds a lot. Lovely image, wonderful EXP and sharpness. Really like that angle of the bird towards us.

[dankearl]

Thanks for the coments and thanks Ofer for the repost.
I did have more room on the left and NX2 does not add canvas.
I probably need to get photoshop.
It does look better.

[gail bisson]

I like the original but the reposts with more room on the left really improves the image. Love the BG and the wing position and the angle of the bird. A lovely shot of a very ordinary bird,
Gail