Unusual composite

This is a colony of northern gannets at Cape St. Mary's, Newfoundland. This is an unusual composite in that I photographed the bird with a 500mm f/4 Canon telephoto plus a 1.4x teleconverter giving me 700mm of focal length, while I used a 24mm focal length to capture the landscape. The wide angle lens created the disproportionately large foreground -- something you never see when shooting with a telephoto. This composite is much more representative of what I saw because there were hundreds of birds in the air flying over the main colony. A telephoto could capture one or two birds but the background was completely blurred, making the colony and the environment disappear. A wide angle alone captured the environment but it made the birds too small in the frame. When making composites, if your goal is realism, it is very important the lighting matches with the various components. Usually, focal lengths should match, too, but in this case I experimented and came up with an image you rarely see. In a way, it looks unreal only because a lens can't produce images like this. But as I said, this is a realistic visual of what I saw with my eyes. My settings for the shot of the gannet in flight were 1/3200, f/11, and 2000 ISO.