Gav.
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I wonder whether leaving out the other gull near the pup doesn’t leave out part of the story?There's definitely a photo there telling the story Gav.
My first thought, shutter speed looks too slow for the charging mother and gulls, making it look blurry/soft.
I always think it's a must to post exif as well as focal length, when asking for crit, it's hard to give advice without.
A quick edit, cropped, cloned and a little sharpening would, for me, give a half decent record shot of events
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Hi sphexx, thanks for the feedback, I think you could be right as that one circled back around after being moved onI wonder whether leaving out the other gull near the pup doesn’t leave out part of the story?
It’s nearly always the way that the defender has to move too far (or gets carried away) to drive off the attacker/rival leaving the prey/food I defended. Happens even with blackbirds squabbling over breadcrumbs in my garden .Hi sphexx, thanks for the feedback, I think you could be right as that one circled back around after being moved on
Thank you both for taking the time to help
You have a kinder view of gulls than I .I'm sure they were only trying to clean up and feed on the afterbirth, but they were pecking at the pups face very close to the eyes at one point and pulling its tail and flippers.
Anyway .. I'll try harder next time and I'll get another edit done
Thanks Phil, sorry for lack of info..
Canon 90D
Sigma 150-600mm C
Av 1/250 f9.0 iso400 157mm RAW
It was imported via canon connect to the tablet, would doing this affect quality as the camera does the jpeg conversion?
I will try and get my PC running again and import the RAW into Affinity and following your edit and repost
Thanks for the help
I wonder whether leaving out the other gull near the pup doesn’t leave out part of the story?
Don’t you think that provided mother & pup are sharp then blurred gulls would add a sense of drama, provided they were recognisably gulls of course?Gav, 1/250th would be too slow for me, should be ok re FL handheld but unless gulls are stood still, there's always the chance of motion blur. I very rarely shot below 1/800th and usually faster if conditions allow.
Shooting wide open at f6.3 would have given you a ss of 1/500th at ISO 400, doubling ISO to 800 would have given you a ss of 1/1000th with a lot bigger percentage of sharp images.
Hiya Richard, yes, I would probably agree with that, I even nearly put in the post, other crops avaliable and mine was only a suggestion
I'll move on to something else now
I will make note and try harder
Don’t you think that provided mother & pup are sharp then blurred gulls would add a sense of drama, provided they were recognisably gulls of course?
I think the problem for me with these is that (and maybe it’s my ipad/eyesight/forum software/etc) the pup isn’t clearly enough defined, given that one’s eye is drawn to the main action.
Thanks PhilTo finish this thread off Gav, I'll just reply to you and Richard
What I will say to this is, just go out, practise and have fun. Trying harder can be frustrating, trust me I've been there and probably most bird/wildlife photographers will have been at some time as well