Kelp Gull Juv

[Dumay de Boulle]

1D MKIII
500 f4 L IS + 1.4 Ext
AV f8
TV 1/2500
ISO 400
Exp +0.67
Manual exp
Spot metering
Aperture and CS5

Crits appreciated

[Ofer Levy]

Love this! Great angle and excellent techs! Nice behaviour too.

[Randy Stout]

Dumay:

Excellent! Super low shooting angle, sharp, well exposed, interesting prop(shells), nice BG.

Well done

Cheers

Randy

[Don Railton]

This is beautiful Dumay...! Super IQ and angle.

Don

[Frank Schauf]

Beautiful portrait, great pose and colours.

[Grace Scalzo]

Eye-catching image, Dumay. Love the sliver of in focus sand and the color palette. The blue in the sky, the blue in the shells, the browns in the gull and in the shells, all are in perfect harmony.

[Gerald Kelberg]

Really like the gull with the lifted foot and the relative position of the mussel shells. Not sure about the narrow strip of in-focus ground; or more to the point, the way the sand/earth is very uniform. Is this something you have achieved in the camera through the low angle or adding blur/smoothing in PP?

Thanks for sharing,

Gerald

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Mate, love the inquisitive pose of the gull on the shells, great DOF, and I really like the light in this. The raised foot puts this over the top.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Beautiful quality to this image, a real gem of a shot. I like the pose and the mussel shells and the small ridge of sand.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Looks great. I love the curious demeanour of the gull, and the raised foot adds alot.

[J van Noordwyk]

Verry good DOF and pose the raised pow makes this special for me a lovely image well done.

[Dumay de Boulle]

Thanks for all the comments & kind words. Gerald, all of this is as shot no blurring was done at all. I think there was a slight rise on the beach thats what made it strip like and thats probably why the left foot is not completely visible.

[Kiran Poonacha]

nice done this.. loved the feel.

[Colin Knight]

Cropped a bit tight for me. That low angle is KILLER! Nice use of f/8 as well.

[arash_hazeghi]

nice behavior image. great techs and detail

[dankearl]

This is so good, Dumay!
I feel like I am right at the scene. The shells and the angle is just great.

[christopher galeski]

great shot,good IQ,nice low angle,and like this Kelp Gull,I like mussel's too.well done.

[Vivaldo Damilano]

Excellent Dumay, love this image, mussel's add nice balance to the composition.