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Little Owl
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Little Owl

by David Rowe

Gallery: AvianPosted December 31, 201387 views3 comments
Place – Geneva, Switzerland Dec. 31, 2013
D300s 150-500mm at 500mm
ISO 640
1/160s at f6.3 ev 0.00 WB manual
Handheld
Original TIFF file cropped from 35M to 11M
Photoshop CS

The bird was perched high in an oak tree. Camera angle was close to 70° and it was difficult to get a twig-free bead. The subject was backlit, making the task yet more tricky.

Your comments, suggestions and criticisms are most welcome.
Thanks for looking

Comments

3 comments
Comment posted by John Tobias on January 1, 2014 at 9:18 AM
Very nice! I like the position of the owl in the frame. Also, the soft colors. You did well to eliminate most of the small twigs in front of the owl, not always easy to do. Thanks for sharing.
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Comment posted by David Rowe on January 1, 2014 at 11:31 AM
Glad you like it John. This was one of my last shots of the year but my first view of a Little Owl. I was thrilled to bits! I took many shots with differing parameters. I didn't spend much time on processing this image on account of the imposing end-of-year revelries but I was surprised to find that exposure was a mere 1/160s. The steep angle of elevation couldn't be avoided and it invariably leads to fore shortening of the image in a vertical sense. Today I took a rectangular selection of the head on a similar image and stretched it upward with a resulting possible improvement in perspective.
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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 1, 2014 at 4:12 PM
Quite a reasonable job for such tough conditions, David.

:toast:
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