I missed commenting on this earlier, but that's an excellent shot. I might crop it so that the bird was in the lower right third rather than dead center, but I would have defintely shot it with the bird in the center.
On Jan 29, 2011, at 5:21 AM, Jack Davis wrote: > Appreciated, Christine! > > Jack > > --- On Fri, 1/28/11, Christine Aguila <[email protected]> wrote: > >> From: Christine Aguila <[email protected]> >> Subject: Re: Ring-Billed Gull >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Date: Friday, January 28, 2011, 9:36 PM >> Wow, that's a black background, >> clearly makes the bird pop. Good bird pose, >> Jack. Cheers, Christine >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jack Davis" <[email protected]> >> To: "Pentax-Discuss Mail List" <[email protected]> >> Sent: Friday, January 28, 2011 12:04 PM >> Subject: PESO: Ring-Billed Gull >> >> >>> Was at a local northern California lake with the >> intention of "practicing" my photo panning. Quite a few Sea >> Gulls frequent said lake, but only in the winter. Must be >> the storms at sea that encourages them to move inland. This >> lake is surrounded with french fry munching folks, who bring >> their drive-through lunches and check out the bird life. >>> Happened to get this as it passed a darkened shadow >> area background. Was dark enough that it didn't take much >> shopping to produce the one you see. >>> I included, perhaps, a little more black background >> than necessary, but I wanted to make it a more significant >> part of the scene for whatever impact it might have. Bumps >> the emotion a tad for me. >>> >>> Jack >>> >>> comments most welcome! >>> >>> http://photolightimages.com/aspupload/detail.asp?ID=560 >>> >>> K20, DA 55~300@300mm, f/6.7, 1/1000, ISO 400, hand >> held >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>> [email protected] >>> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and follow the directions. >>> >> >> >> -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link >> directly above and follow the directions. >> > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
