Seagulls

[Starskream666]

100-300 mm


IMG_1362 by Skateboard C 91, on Flickr


IMG_1363-2 by Skateboard C 91, on Flickr

 

[WesternGuy]

The second one is nice, but that out of focus bird in the first one is very distracting. I am curious how you did the black and white conversion.

WesternGuy

 

[Starskream666]

Thanks erm just on Lightroom.
Aye I wish it wasn't so close to the foreground, the OOF one

 

[amolitor]

I like these a lot, and think the first one is quite superior.

The second one is a photograph of a seagull, albeit quite a nice one. The dark background is a nice departure from what we normally see with wildlife photography.

The first one is evocative, potentially, of a whole lot more. Sure, they're out of focus birds, but they give a ghostlike or ephemeral sense, and they echo the in-focus birds lower down. The b&w with the dark background is visually dramatic, as is the rim-lighting on the birds. The dark and murky background (probably just some trees and crap, but it COULD be a "deep dark forest" or almost anything, it could be magical, it could be evil, it could be so much more than a bunch of trees). You are free to imagine that they're ghost birds, or some symbol of freedom, or peace, or whatever floats your boat.

The point is not a specific set of symbolic mumbo-jumbo, the point is that the picture is open-ended and invites us to imagine and feel a lot more than just "picture of a seagull".