Juvie RBG

Practicing BIF shots yesterday, the gulls were happy to humor me with an air show. This is a juvenile ring billed gull. I am beginning to realize downside to high speed continuous shooting unless you like to post process hundreds of images.

Great practice birds. My delete key is starting to wear out!

G3G4G5 wrote in post #9856325
Great practice birds. My delete key is starting to wear out!

I need to get more brutal with the Delete key. It must be a holdover from the days of film where old pictures get stored in a shoe box, but never thrown out. Trouble is ... these digital shoe boxes are getting full.

Good shooting, Bill.

Practice is practice Bill but keeping images you'll never look at again is called hoarding. 80% of my images are discarded at first look. 20% will get another look and of that bunch a small number will be processed.

Nice for practicing. I wish gulls extended this far inland I'm having no luck finding willing participants like that. All of my practice shots so far look like piles of feathers.

It is a lot of work at times Bill but your end result is excellent.

Nice capture Bill, the feather detail & tone is excellent.

db

Nice crisp shot

Great shot, Bill. I, too, have trouble tossing decent images, even if there is little difference between several of them. I'm learning, though.

Levina de Ruijter wrote in post #9856776
Good shooting, Bill.

Thanks, Levina.

Joe F.N. wrote in post #9856871
Practice is practice Bill but keeping images you'll never look at again is called hoarding. 80% of my images are discarded at first look. 20% will get another look and of that bunch a small number will be processed.

Joe, you are certainly right about keeping images that will never see the light of day. With a fairly new 1TB hard drive, it has been too easy to just ignore all of the images, but since getting the 7D with its large files, even the 1 TB drive is not adequate for unbridled hoarding.

K6AZ wrote in post #9856961
Nice for practicing. I wish gulls extended this far inland I'm having no luck finding willing participants like that. All of my practice shots so far look like piles of feathers.

I usually go to the lake during the late afternoon feeding frenzy when people are tossing pieces of bread into the air so there are plenty of gulls swarming all around the lake.

Don1 wrote in post #9857127
It is a lot of work at times Bill but your end result is excellent.

Thanks, Don. My keeper rate has improved immensely which is both good and bad.

dbriz wrote in post #9857220
Nice capture Bill, the feather detail & tone is excellent.

db

Thanks, db.

artyman wrote in post #9857231
Nice crisp shot

Thanks, Ken.

sparker1 wrote in post #9857426
Great shot, Bill. I, too, have trouble tossing decent images, even if there is little difference between several of them. I'm learning, though.

Thanks, Stan. I have been working on my image sharpen technique using edge masks with luminosity blending in an effort to minimize or eliminate halos around very high contrast edges. I nee to thank Mitch for pointing this problem out to me.

Thanks for all the encouragement guys. Now, I'm off to delete a few hundred images (once you have seen one gull, you have seen them all ... right?).