Barn Owl

This is from our latest batch of Barn Owl fledglings. I had one night where they came out early enough to take a stab at some high iso shots and they were still pretty young and weren't spending much time away from the nest box. Two of them were reasonably cooperative but I didn't have the light to get both in focus at once.

5Diii, 500mm f4 ISL + 1.4TC, Jobu Gimbal on RRS legs, f5.6, 1/50, iso 3200 (I used 6400 later, but the noise got pretty difficult to handle), -1/3 stop exposure compensation (I actually had to add exposure in post processing, but at least this kept my shutter speed at a half-way reasonable value)aperture priority, pattern metering. Increased exposure in LR5 and did cropping, noise reduction, sharpening and minor tuning in CS6. Cropped to 13.4MP from the original 21. The perch is the roof of the nest box. Taken on our property on July 17th at 9:16 pm.

Your comments are very much appreciated.

Thanks for looking,