Gull in Mid-Swoop
Sony DSC-D770
Here's a different sort of flight :). I shot this in Golden Gate Park a few years ago. When working on the composition, I decided to leave the trees in at the lower part of the image to give it a sense of environment vs. just showing the bird and the piece of bread.
What do you think?
--Warren
posted by Warren T. at 2:28 PM
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3 Comments:
Interesting perspective. I would crop the trees out. Difficult photo to make with an early digital camera because of the shutter lag. Timing could be better but still not a bad photo.
I really like it, Warren - it's a very unusual perspective. I actually like the fact that you left the trees at bottom. The combination of the 3 elements - the trees, the textured sky, and the bird, really work for me.
I put my finger over the piece of bread momentarily, and like it as much without the bread as with.
For me, it has a mysterious feel.
I had a lot of fun contemplating the best composition for this shot. I liked the very unusual pose of the gull. I felt that it looked sort of mysterious and angelic. My initial crop was just the gull by itself. Alas, early, low megapixel (1.5mp) technology did not allow such a close crop without compromising image quality, so I abandoned that idea. I could have cloned out the piece of bread, but it goes against my preference for reality (remembering the moment as I shot it).
It's possible that I might have set the camera on manual focus, and prefocused in order to reduce shutter lag. Martin is right, it is hard to capture the precise moment with some of the older digital and P&S technology.
--Warren
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