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cameraCanon EOS 650D

settings Aperture f/1.8 ISO 100 Shutter 1/2500 

upload_dateNov, 2013

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21 Comments |
AlanJakarta
 
AlanJakarta December 12, 2013
Great capture. Congratulations.
LindaDLester
 
LindaDLester December 12, 2013
Excellent close up! Congratulations on the featured photo!
catini
 
catini December 12, 2013
Great capture, congrats on your feature!
drakkardarkblade
 
drakkardarkblade December 12, 2013
congrats, fantastic, please check out my works
brendachildersmerritt Platinum
 
brendachildersmerritt December 12, 2013
Great Capture!
iceman2
 
iceman2 December 12, 2013
Excellent capture.Congrats!
jleiweke
 
jleiweke December 12, 2013
Congrats!
barbarabrock Platinum
 
barbarabrock December 12, 2013
So close and so clear! Great shot.
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CatNap December 12, 2013
Love it,good job!!
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BowmanLifeStudios December 12, 2013
Very nice shot, nice timing!
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justkim1106 December 12, 2013
Amazing!
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changezi December 12, 2013
congrats
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francescorusso December 15, 2013
Very nice
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redwriter December 16, 2013
Great capture. Congrats. - Jake
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rmr731 December 17, 2013
Fantastic capture! Congrats on being featured!
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kunalbais January 06, 2014
Super shot
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feistyvolk January 06, 2014
Just WOW. Great shot!
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Nastija January 22, 2015
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TravelBugDove February 10, 2015
Beautiful capture!!
angelarivera
 
angelarivera March 05, 2015
Love it !
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sydneyosbourne April 14, 2015
Kudos!

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Behind The Lens

Location

this photo was taken in Hamburg, Germany at the port. A friend of mine lured them closer with so food. It was a really nice day so the colors came out pretty good. Im a self-taught photographer and pretty new to the game at that point. I learned a lot about shutter speed and aperture that day.

Time

I shot this photo in the afternoon, a lot of sun, a lot of wind. I was struggling all day to get a good photo because the sun was too high up but for this shot it worked perfectly.

Lighting

It was shot with natural light only, no flash on the camera. i was lucky that there was a lot of wind. The seagulls had to turn their body in order to stay close to my food :D That worked for some pretty nice highlights and shadows.

Equipment

I used the first DSLR i ever owned. A Canon 650d with a nifty fifty (canon 50mm f1.8)

Inspiration

We were at the port so seagulls were everywhere. I took a lot of urban landscape photos that day but since they didn´t work out i started to look up and the seagulls put up a great show.

Editing

i pushed the blues and the orange a little bit, plus some vignetting. pretty basic

In my camera bag

Now i have a really nice Sony a7r with the awesome 35mm prime always at hand. A lens i always carry with me is the Helios 55mm 2.0 an old ussr lens with a really nice swirly bokeh.

Feedback

Shooting something like this with a big tele zoom will be dificult. get some food and the seagulls will come close. since you can´t direct them to do what you want you have to be patient and shoot a lot of images. They will almost stand still in the air in order to get the food so you don´t have to worry about focus speed. And of course, have fun!

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