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Herring gull pair

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Posted by Alan Bryant on November 9, 2009 at 11:18 AM
Herring gull pair
A different kind of herring gull shot from the "norm".

1D3
500f4
ISO 250
1/3200 @ f/5

Thanks for looking and for your comments :smile:
Posted by Mark Green on November 9, 2009 at 11:39 AM
Hi Alan, really Nice POV, and detail, but personally i find the OOF gull a little distracting.
I think i would prefer them both to be infocus.


Cheers
Mark.G
Posted by Robert Lawrence on November 9, 2009 at 1:53 PM
I'm afraid this one doesn't really work for me Alan. I know you won't get the depth of field to put both birds in focus so for me I'd rather the second bird wasn't there.
Robert.
Posted by Nigel Blake on November 9, 2009 at 2:01 PM
Works for me Alan, the second bird adds a bit of "3D" to the image and takes it away from being just a "gull on a pool" shot; a slightly lower POV and the rest of the foreground bird's reflection would be the icing on the cake though!
Posted by Phil Shaw on November 10, 2009 at 8:15 AM
I think the composition works well. As Nigel has said having the full length reflection of the leading bird would have been desirable, since the reflection is pretty broken-up, it isn't really an issue for me.