Acrobatic Gulls

[Geoff F]

There wasn't much happening around the bird hide and it was an overcast day; but a group of Black-headed Gulls had found a shoal of small fish and were getting themselves into some interesting positions while feeding. So despite the conditions I increased my Iso to achieve a suitable shutter speed and had a go.

The result was rather noisy images with Iso between 1250 and 1600 which is twice my usual limit. However, putting the technical problems aside, I thought the wing positions etc were interesting.

The Headstand



Crash Landing



Move aside



Emergency stop



And what kind of creature is this.



The one positive advantage of the overcast sky is that I didn't have the frequent difficulty of too much contrast between bright highlights and shadow areas.

[Shadowman]

Nice series.

[davidedric]

Brilliant

Interesting to see the different developments of the "black head"

Dave

[LightBucket]

I really like the second, crash landing, image!

[Dave A]

I enjoyed the series, well done.

Dave

[John 2]

A nice series all round but I love the first two. They don't seem to be overly noisy Geoff but perhaps that is the secret of a good photograph. When the overall image grabs you, individual aspects just fade into the BG.

[Sergio M.]

They don't seem to be overly noisy Geoff but perhaps that is the secret of a good photograph. When the overall image grabs you, individual aspects just fade into the BG.

+1

Nicely done, Geoff.

Sergio

[Wavelength]

Classic shots

[Rebel]

A nice series Geoff

[Geoff F]

Thanks for the positive replies. I did a bit of selective sharpening and noise removal on these images to improve the originals a little.

Yes, Dave, these birds are beginning to develop their summer colours although the half way stage birds do tend to look a little 'scruffy'.