Aerial Curiosity

Gallery: AvianPosted June 1, 2017143 views5 comments

I was down on the dock, waiting for my wife to send me a shopping list so I decided to make use of all the gulls and terns flying around. I can always use more practice with my high speed, hand held bird tracking so I got out the camera and started chasing the kittiwakes. I think this one was a little curious about my strange antics enlightened

Sony a6500, FE 70-200 f2.8 GM @ 198 mm, ISO-100, f/4.0, 1/4000, hand held. A small crop for composition. It's clean enough that I could have cropped it quite a bit more but I really liked the mountain background.

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Comment posted by Skip Layman on June 2, 2017 at 12:43 AM

The cocked head looking at you really makes this shot. Nice aerial. I would be tempted to crop some of the right side.

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Comment posted by Ken Watkins on June 2, 2017 at 5:04 AM

Gary,
Wonderful shot,
how did you get such a shutter speed with such a low ISO?

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Comment posted by Gary Minish on June 2, 2017 at 9:53 AM

Ken; It was a very bright day and I was shooting white gulls against a snowy mountain. I would have been shooting at f2.8 except that 1/4000 is max for my camera. I had to go to f4.0 to keep the ultra bright highlights under control!

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on June 2, 2017 at 2:32 PM

Excellent detail in the gull, Gary. I like the mountain, but the brighter parts keep pulling my eye from the gull, so I'd be tempted to tone them down a bit.

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Comment posted by Matt Shellenberg on June 5, 2017 at 8:02 PM

Very nice detail in the gull, Gary. I also like that nice headturn. A really nice image!!!!

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