Flying Seagull

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-- Lionel Zhang (lionelz@geocities.com), September 12, 1998

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What I like: the framing and the blurred wing tips. What I don't like: the bland sky (little you can do about that) and the slightly unsharp body. These kinds of in-flight shots look best when the body is frozen and sharp and the wings are blurred, IMO. If possible, a higher shutter speed might have been beneficial, although that might have frozen the wings too much.

I've taken several flying seagull shots similar to this, but have never been really happy with any of them. Sometimes I have a more interesting sky in the background, or sharp body/blurred wings, or good framing. But I can never seem to get all the elements working together in the same shot. Yours is better than any I've taken so far, though.

-- Russ Arcuri (arcuri@borg.com), September 12, 1998.


Nice shot! looks like a painting. It has a great feel to it. I would not change a thing!

-- Bahman Farzad (cpgbooks@mindspring.com), September 12, 1998.

Nice light and composition, but I think the body has to be really sharply focussed.

Frank

-- Frank Kolwicz (bb389@lafn.org), September 12, 1998.


Nice shot! Here is a question for Photoshop experts: The blue sky has been broken up into large bands of slighlty differing density. This is extremely distracting. What's the best way to fix/avoid this???

-- (andreas@physio.unr.edu), September 15, 1998.

Andreas, set your monitor to millions of colors. There is no banding on my monitor when I view this photo. However, Internet Explorer for some reasons chops the ends of my messages on this server so this will probably be an incomplete sentenc

-- Darron Spohn (sspohn@concentric.net), September 15, 1998.


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