Laughing Gull BIF sequence

[hunter58]

I took some shots of a Laughing Gull to practice my BIF shooting. I decided to have some fun with Photoshop and see if I could put a sequence together in one shot.

Feel free to critique it.

[kelshaw]

Hello Hunter, my name is Kelshaw, i joined Photozo just a couple of weeks ago, i have sent in some posts recently and a couple of photos for advice and opinions.

I too love wildlife, wish my photos were as good as yours.

I think your photo is fantastic, how did you shoot it?

Kelshaw.

[mishlove]

Great shot.

[Bishop]

Great job! It could be a tad lighter, looks a bit dark on my monitor.

[Sage]

Excellent composite. You did well. ~~Peg

[Kiasmum]

Excellent composite. The only thing that bothers me a bit is the 'haloing' around the birds

[hunter58]

Hello Hunter, my name is Kelshaw, i joined Photozo just a couple of weeks ago, i have sent in some posts recently and a couple of photos for advice and opinions.

I too love wildlife, wish my photos were as good as yours.

I think your photo is fantastic, how did you shoot it?

Kelshaw.

When shooting birds I always shoot in continuous mode. When shooting flight shots I try and pump the shutter button to allow the auto focus to reset as you pan the shots. You have to use a fast shutter speed and have really good lighting for it to work well.

[hunter58]

Excellent composite. The only thing that bothers me a bit is the 'haloing' around the birds

That bothered me too. The shots were pretty badly underexposed and as Bishop mentioned it's a tad dark. I pretty much pushed it as far as I could without making the halo really bad, I tried to lighten it more but it looked the birds were glowing.