The Self Critic Shutterbug

This photo was taken in Scotland, while on a cruise hunting for the Loch Ness Monster. The cruise boat had lots of bread crumbs to attract these birds. Using that as a bait, I lured this seagull towards the boat and took a lot of snaps. This was the result of that exercise.

I cropped the image to bring the bird in focus. How I wish I had a telephoto lens. (Any well wishers out there, now you know what to give me for my birthday!) That would have given a crisp image. I then adjusted levels in Photoshop, added a Lightroom preset to make it more gloomy and added the borders.

How did you find this? Do let me know!

Av: F/11.0 Tv: 0.003s Metering mode: Matrix
This was taken near the river bed in Edinburgh, Scotland.Scotland during summers is a feast to the eyes. One gets to experience bright sunny days and green all around. I tried to capture that mood in this picture. I photoshopped it a bit to make the sky less bright to give the picture more depth.

Areas for improvement:
Framing – A lot seems to be happening in the photograph which confuses the reader making it less attractive.

Higher ISO – To capture more details.

Anything else, I could have done better?

PS: This is my first post in this blog and with your encouragement will keep posting more