Great Horned Owl

Gallery: AvianPosted January 24, 2010227 views13 comments

This is a rehab owl that lives at the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey in Orlando.

Critiques and comments are very welcome and appreciated. Thanks for looking!

Canon 5D
300mm f/4L IS
1/250, f/5.6, ISO 800
4-25-09 7:09am

Comments

13 comments

Comment posted by Daniel & Loana on January 24, 2010 at 5:07 PM

Great colours and details on the subject. The BG works very well.

D&L

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Comment posted by Terry Sohl on January 24, 2010 at 6:01 PM

Beautiful Carol, terrific details, and you certainly have a great background and pose.

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Comment posted by Nick Bristol on January 24, 2010 at 6:34 PM

This is great Carol. Nice pose and the detail, color and background...very nice indeed.

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Comment posted by Dennis Plank on January 24, 2010 at 8:16 PM

Beautiful portrait, Carol. Great bg.

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Comment posted by Ed Dubois on January 24, 2010 at 8:27 PM

Lots of impact in this shot Carol. Well done

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Comment posted by SandyRichardsBrown on January 25, 2010 at 2:06 AM

Beautiful portrait with great feather detail, pose, BG, and eyes!
Sandy r

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Comment posted by Rob Drummond on January 25, 2010 at 6:08 AM

Exquisite detail Carol

cheers
Rob

Registered on November 8, 2003, 617 Posts, 8267 Comments

Comment posted by Sally King on January 25, 2010 at 10:39 AM

How gorgeous. Love the eyes and ear tufts. Lovely color combo of the bird and background.

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Comment posted by Monica Siri on January 25, 2010 at 2:40 PM

Carol,
I love those eyes a lot!! Great detail. Well done!!

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Comment posted by Mia McPherson on January 25, 2010 at 2:58 PM

Carol

I like the pose of the owl and how well it stands out from the background.

The rictal bristles seem slightly over sharpened to my eye in both versions of the image, that would be very easy to fix.

I like the intense stare and those fluffy ear tufts.

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Comment posted by Simon Bennett on January 25, 2010 at 4:03 PM

Lovely portrait and exqisite plumage detail.

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Comment posted by Peter Wintergren on January 26, 2010 at 11:32 AM

Excellent portrait, great sharpness and I realy love the bakground with its fine colours. Very good DOF.

Registered on January 24, 2010, 15 Posts, 174 Comments

Comment posted by Jim Hackley on January 26, 2010 at 11:32 PM

What a wonderful color range in this image, sharp with lots of detail, well done.

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