6.2.08

Salamanca gulls

digital colour photo, desaturated and mixed in photoshop

The ongoing and illusive task of snapping the perfect sea gull photo!


A juvenile Pacific Gull

3 comments:

tilcheff said...

I have something very important to report!
Over the weekend I read Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Thanks a lot for letting me know about it.

As for the photos and the telephoto lenses... Do you use your camera's full resolution? If you don't, please give it a go. You will see how much more detail you'll get out of 8 megapixels and what better crops you can then have. Get a 1 gig (or even 2 gig) memory card and you will have plenty of room to make 4-500 photos. Memory cards are very cheap nowadays. It's worthwhile checking several different stores. I was surprised to discover that BigW sell SanDisk memory cards at nearly half the price you would get at DickSmith.

There might even be a tele-converter for your Sony. These usually give you 1,6h to 2x which in your case means that you will go to 400mm!

Pacific Gulls are very Albartoss like, aren't they? I still haven't had the chance to take a decent Pacific Gull pic. And the juveniles are even more interesting than the adults. And they are bigger and fatter too!
Nice photos!

Grace Garton said...

Thanks Nickolay for the information.
I will investigate...tele-converter, now that sounds cool!
Wow you have your laptop....now you'll be evenly weighted with your camera on one side and the laptop on the other:)

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