Sea gulls in flight

LaFoto · Oct 14, 2006

Hey, I have photos of seagulls in flight. They might not be as good as Alex_B's pics, but ...

Andy's (lostprophet's) mentioning sea gulls at St. Ives made me remember that just off St. Ives I did see some from the cliff path that we walked when I was in Cornwall in August! Ta-daaaaa!

Alex_B · Oct 14, 2006

those two are nice!

and you managed without chips!

also i cannot see the motion blur you were afraid of

LaFoto · Oct 14, 2006

No, that friendly gull was floating in the wind. Did not move its wings. Just took advantage of thermal winds here. And it was all uninterested in me standing there on the top of the cliffs trying to pan with its soaring past. But now I can die, can't I? All in peace?

But I still don't want to.........!

Alex_B · Oct 14, 2006

LaFoto said:
But now I can die, can't I? All in peace?

But I still don't want to.........!

LOL, I was pretty damn close to going for that pun in my last post

But then I thought it was not nice.... and now you do it yourself! :lmao:

lostprophet · Oct 14, 2006

I like the fact the gulls are off center and the backgrounds are wonderful.

Its like you have a COKIN seagull filter :lol:

John E. · Oct 15, 2006

Cool having the two different backgrounds using the same comp. Good exposures on the gulls, really like how the gull contrasts on the last picture with the mountain's textured background

cosmonaut · Oct 15, 2006

The water below makes the shots. These are very good. Seagulls are my favorite bird as well...
Cosmonaut

pursuer · Oct 16, 2006

I agree, it is neat that the composition in these shots are almost identical with such different backgrounds.

Alex_B · Oct 16, 2006

and what i really like about them ... after looking at them again , is that you can so clearly see the upper side of their wings...

rebelnotarget · Oct 17, 2006

wow these are great, something about birds in flight that is so graceful. What type of lens did you use for this?

LaFoto · Oct 17, 2006

I am pretty sure it was the Sigma 70-300mm lens that is listed in my profile, but I don't remember how far it was extended... full length? I would need to check the photo data again for this...