Seagull in the Sky

One of the first pictures I took with my new 32GB card for my camera, which means its one of the first RAW images I've shot. Never had the space to justify shooting raw before because I only had an 8GB card, but shooting in raw is what made this picture anything to begin with. I was shooting in creative auto mode (I know, I know) and had switched back to manual to shoot a fast shutter picture of some water when all of a sudden this bird flew right above me, I looked up and snapped away, only to look back down and see a way too overexposed shot, which I'd figured would be unusable. Funny enough, once I was able to get home and tweak it in lightroom, I was able to bring it down to the exact look I wanted, because I had all that raw data! And now this is actually one of my favourite pictures I've shot.



Shot with Canon 5D Mark II
24-105mm Zoom F4-5.6
@ 67mm
ISO 1250
f/4.0 1/4000 sec.