Pygmy Owl

Gallery: AvianPosted March 13, 2012156 views6 comments

This owl was captured during daytime on the borders of Lago Grey in Torres del Paine NP, Chile. Because it turned up unexpectedly, it was shot handheld. It was taken with a Canon EOS-1D MkIV and 70-200 f/4 lens in Av, at 1/640 sec, f/7.1, ISO 500, focal length 200 mm, Av and spotmetering. Image was captured in RAW and some basic adjustments were done in Lightroom, Nik Sharpener plugin, such as some contrast enhancement and sharpening. Image was cropped from the original. Best regards, Karin.

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6 comments

Comment posted by keith mitchell on March 14, 2012 at 4:15 AM

Hi Karin.
Your finished image is very nice but i would have liked to have seen the whole bird,but like i said what you have got is super.

Keith.

Registered on July 12, 2008, 127 Posts, 1735 Comments

Comment posted by Doug Backlund on March 14, 2012 at 10:47 AM

I don't understand why you would crop it like this. If you couldn't fit the owl in the frame, why not shoot vertical or zoom out? Otherwise, it looks great to me.

Registered on September 29, 2005, 252 Posts, 3380 Comments

Comment posted by Rick Turner on March 15, 2012 at 5:33 PM

Great shot but I am always turned off to animals cut off at some point of the torso. Nice crispness in you shot.

Registered on February 18, 2012, 534 Posts, 2755 Comments

Comment posted by Jim Hackley on March 16, 2012 at 1:21 PM

Wonderful look, pose and background to this. I like that you can see some red on the beak and if you have a vertical of this it would really make a super image, nice job in getting this.

Registered on September 17, 2009, 302 Posts, 5535 Comments

Comment posted by Brian Gatlin on March 17, 2012 at 7:30 PM

love the pose and great bg, Karin. details look excellent. personally I'd much prefer having the whole bird vs this comp, whether as a horizontal or vertical.

Registered on March 21, 2009, 202 Posts, 4187 Comments

Comment posted by Karin De Winter on March 18, 2012 at 6:20 PM

Thanks to all for your viewing and comments, they are much appreciated ! It is a pygmy owl, and it has got very tiny feet underneath its feathers; in fact you can see part of its nail at the bottom of the image. I felt we had to crop this image as the owl landed on the most ugly piece of wood you could imagine. A vertical crop including that wood did nothing really for esthetics. The downside of the crop is that its tail has been left out, which we realize is a drawback and not regarded as optimal from the point of view of bird photographers. So next time we try for the better ! Thanks again, best regards, Karin.

Registered on February 23, 2011, 7 Posts, 13 Comments