[johnytrout]

Every now and again I like to photograph certain things in groups, like bridges, trees, or the beach etc.
A few weeks back I took these on our local shoreline

[johnytrout]

Another of a gull

[Phil J]

Johny,

Beautiful capture in both examples. Personally the first one is exemplary of a bird in flight, on the other hand the amount of detail you managed to achieve in number two is also first rate. So, two cracking good images, excellent work.

Regards.

Phil.

[EdMak]

Lovely pics Johnny, top marks, but, to me, the crop is too tight, more so at the heads. Ed.

[Dean]

Gul on the water has good focus. If you have shot in RAW you should be able to recover a bit more detail on the breast. White birds are always difficult to photo.
Bird in flight is more like a goose, to me, over cooked!

[Phil J]

NOT Sea birds, but, a blooming great big one. Taken on Friday last on the Stroudwater Canal in Gloucestershire.

[EdMak]

Good one Phil, pity about the intruder behind. Why not start in a new thread. Ed.

[Phil J]

Good one Phil, pity about the intruder behind. Why not start in a new thread. Ed.

Thanks Ed. The simple reason as to why I didn't start a new thread is, I don't yet know how to, and my post was as much an experiment in posting a Pic as much as anything.

If someone want's to move me to a new one, I'm more than happy for the help.

Regards.

Phil.

[EdMak]

Good answer. Barbara, Moderator, may see this and action. On Forum page, click on left side heading, where you want to post to, then top right, NEW THREAD, post from there. Ed.

[Phil J]

Hi Ed,

A truthful answer mate!! Thanks for the instructions. I'll give it a go, but probably not tonight, that is unless Mrs J is watching the usual dross on the box for a Saturday night.

Regards.

Phil.

[Don Schaeffer]

Love the first one of the flying gull. What lens is that?

[johnytrout]

I used a Canon Zoom Lense EF 100-400 and was lucky to catch this shot.
It is an Oyster Catcher. There was no manipulation. All I did was crop.

[MrB]

Johny, in both shots the birds look superb, but you seem to have been over-enthusiastic with your cropping of the images.

If the original oyster catcher image does have spare space around the bird, the crop should include more space in front of it (i.e. on the left) for it to fly into; a bit more space above would also benefit the photo.

Similarly for the gull, it also needs more space around it, particularly in front (i.e. on the right), and I think it would be even better if you could include all of its reflection.

Philip

[johnytrout]

Thank you for the replies. I have since learned about this from this site.
A few months back, I unknowingly cropped a whole lot of my photos and saved them to a new folder.. The EXIF's were lost in the process.
I hope this does not mean that I can't show what I have achieved so far.
I now know about the EXIF and all my original images get saved in one file while my cropped ones get saved in another...........
So bare with me .............. I will get there eventually! Ty