seal with gulls

Gallery: WildlifePosted October 24, 2011131 views2 comments

This is another picture from our trip to Vancouver Island this summer. After finding some orcas we went to a spot that was good for seals and sea lions and found a bunch! This is one of my first pictures from there...this guy was all alone with a whole bunch of seagulls around him. I liked the way he looked up and posed for a second! I also like the look of all the gulls around him and the way the rocks look (from all the gulls!).

This is a pretty big crop but we couldn't get closer because the waves started getting too high.

My dad and I chose this crop because of some distracting stuff below him on the rocks and the way it looks with all the gulls.

The sky is that colour because there was a heavy fog rolling in.

Thank you for looking!

NIKON D7000
AF-S Nikkor 300mm f/4 IF-ED
ISO 640
1/2000 @ f/4
handheld from boat
about 60% of original

Comments

2 comments

Comment posted by Lon Sharp on October 25, 2011 at 3:50 PM

I think this is an especially interesting capture and I like your choice of framing. The blue of the shadows adds an interesting moodiness and I like it for the reasons you described. Good eye!

Registered on December 9, 2007, 258 Posts, 9892 Comments

Comment posted by Johan Malmros on October 29, 2011 at 12:13 PM

The seal almost looks lost among all the birds. Gives an humours tuch to the image. Like it.

The pano format suites this fine. I guess it might be impossible, but if you could have avoided cutting the gulls on the left in half that would have been great :-)
The light looks a bit hard to work with but you have still made a good job of it. If the highlights could be toned down a tad (especially on the seal) I think that would help.

Thanks for sharing.

Registered on January 6, 2011, 20 Posts, 154 Comments