I took this picture of laughing gulls in the Outer Banks of North Carolina with a 16mm wide angle lens. I stood right next to a table on which a fisherman was cleaning his catch of the day. This attracted a lot of birds, and all I had to do was wait for a great picture. The low angled sunlight added a wonderful warmth to the scene. I had to clone out some distracting cottages and docks in the distance, but that made the final result much more graphic, clean, and successful. My settings for this picture were 1/400th, f/9, and 200 ISO. I should have raised the ISO to 800 because that would have allowed me to use a shutter speed of 1/1600th to freeze the wing movement. I don't mind the little bit of blur, but ideally I'd prefer that the wings were tack sharp so we could see and appreciate the beauty of the feather detail. A speed of 1/1600th would have done that.
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