Kittiwake

Gallery: AvianPosted April 27, 201092 views11 comments

I was trying to get a image of these great little gulls flying head on, not an easy thing to do I sat for hours on St Abbs Head in the Scottish Borders trying to get it right. Tis is one of the pictures

Canon 7D canon 300mm f2.8 lens, f2.8, 1/2000sec, ISO 320

Comments very welcome

Comments

11 comments

Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on April 27, 2010 at 3:01 PM

Ron, your patience paid off! Great angle, and cool BG that accentuates the bird.
Sandy r

Registered on November 24, 2003, 3937 Posts, 12909 Comments

Comment posted by Philip Hodgkins on April 27, 2010 at 3:39 PM

Nicely composed and handled. I like the bird and its angle of flight. There seems to be a bit of noise in the BG.

Why F/2.8? It seems to me you could have stopped down a bit and still been able to freeze motion.

Registered on July 24, 2006, 2741 Posts, 12349 Comments

Comment posted by Daniel & Loana on April 27, 2010 at 4:22 PM

Great result! The pose and the DOF are perfect!

Congrats

D&L

Registered on October 7, 2008, 166 Posts, 3044 Comments

Comment posted by Richard Ditch on April 27, 2010 at 7:25 PM

Nice flight position and blurred background suggesting the nesting cliffs. There's quite a bit of jpeg artifacts from the compression of the large image down to just over 200Kb.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 1031 Posts, 12705 Comments

Comment posted by Dennis Plank on April 27, 2010 at 11:30 PM

Beautiful, Ron. I really like the angle of the gull and the bg is fantastic. This has a very neat mood to it that I like a lot.

Registered on January 28, 2008, 1767 Posts, 23192 Comments

Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on April 28, 2010 at 12:26 AM

Very nice, moody shot. I know how hard these buoyant fliers are; well done. Did you forget to adjust the size of the 1200px shot to 500KB? Looks to be seriously compressed, with attendant JPEG artifacts.

Registered on August 28, 2006, 1240 Posts, 8506 Comments

Comment posted by Peter Conway on April 28, 2010 at 12:30 AM

Wonderful POV and in-flight posture.

Peter

Registered on June 25, 2007, 347 Posts, 3913 Comments

Comment posted by Rob Drummond on April 28, 2010 at 7:05 AM

Nice one Ron - like the pose of the bird and the contrast between it and the cliff face

cheers
Rob

Registered on November 8, 2003, 617 Posts, 8267 Comments

Comment posted by Chris Ross on April 29, 2010 at 7:48 AM

Nice work Ron, great banking pose captured here.

Registered on November 1, 2003, 403 Posts, 2729 Comments

Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on April 29, 2010 at 8:49 PM

Ron, I see alot of noise in this image as well at 320, I'm surprised. Was it under exposed at all?or a very large crop?. The angle of the birds pose is great as id the shrp face

Registered on June 30, 2009, 300 Posts, 5051 Comments

Comment posted by Muhammad Zaid Wani on September 4, 2010 at 4:31 AM

Outstanding flight shot! My only nit is the noise in the BG. Your patience paid off big time!

Registered on August 18, 2005, 23 Posts, 1406 Comments