A couple of gulls

[Grumpy John]

I have been going through my photo's lately and adding keywords to them to make finding particular images (birds, landscape, sporting, etc.) easier.
I came across some bird images from when I first got my Sigma 70-200 f2.8. Taken back in January 2013, I was concentrating so much on getting the eyes in focus I completely forgot about the feet. These shots are basically SOOC except for some light and shadow work done in ACR and conversion from RAW to jpeg for uploading.

#1 Silver Gull. Canon 7D Sigma 70-200 f2.8. F2.8, 1/2500 ISO100 @ 200mm



#2 Pacific Gull. Canon 7D Sigma 70-200 f2.8. F11.0, 1/320 ISO100 @ 200mm

[Isac]

It's great to see that you've learnt from your mistakes John.

[HansE]

haha We have all been there.

[Isac]

I've never done that guys - really - honestly - I'm telling the truth - don't listen to what anyone says, it's not true !!

[Grumpy John]

That's only because you have a huge selection of bird feet images and your PS skills are second to none

[Isac]

I sense a challenge in there somewhere! Now people are gong to think I'm a bit odd because I collect birds feet images

[Isac]

Easy As!!

[HansE]

What's that gull doing with duck feet?

[Isac]

Very clever bird indeed John. They are just as capable of grabbing the odd hot chip from a bunch of unsuspecting humans.

[Isac]

The feet are borrowed from an identical seagull Hans so no ducks were hurt during this major edit

[avkomp]

light not seem so nice on these ones as the ones with feet.
notice the difference in the background between these 2 shots?
no reason to shoot f11 here on the pacific gull. open up some more and you less likely to be having to blur you b/g in post