Short Eared Owl.

Gallery: AvianPosted May 14, 2012540 views21 comments

Nikon D7000.
Nikon 300ml 2.8
1/320@f8.iso500.

Not had to many decent evenings over here but did manage one nice one this week,this bird posed for me in the evening sun ,taken from my car window.

Thanks for looking any C&C much appreciated.

Comments

21 comments

Comment posted by Barb Pflaum on May 14, 2012 at 5:53 PM

Nice pose, beautiful lighting and bg!

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Comment posted by Graham Brown on May 14, 2012 at 6:46 PM

Really beautiful evening light giving unusual colours. Natural countryside setting makes a lovely image. Graham

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Comment posted by Richard Ditch on May 14, 2012 at 7:27 PM

A lovely image - such nice light and a great subject.

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Comment posted by Kurt Bowman on May 14, 2012 at 8:14 PM

Keith, the light on this is just amazing! Beautifully done.

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Comment posted by Ray Whitt on May 14, 2012 at 9:21 PM

Great work, wonderful light, excellent detail.

Ray

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Comment posted by Cheryl Molennor on May 14, 2012 at 9:53 PM

Amazing light, clean bg and a beautiful bird. Although I see great detail I wonder why the front of the bird looks so soft. It looks like NR to me or is it the dof? Really nice

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Comment posted by Keith Bauer on May 14, 2012 at 10:14 PM

The light on this is very nice. Colors are complimentary and seem to work very well. Something looks strange to me with the softness in the plumage. The background is showing noise. It looks like NR was applied to bird, rather than the background?

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Comment posted by Gary Gulash on May 15, 2012 at 12:14 AM

What a beautiful bird and the lighting is exceptional. I also see the unusual smoothing in the background etc., could you share your post-processing details. Excellent details on the face and wing areas.

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Comment posted by Charles Gangas on May 15, 2012 at 1:41 AM

Gorgeous light on this very neat bird Keith, I love the post perch and the smooth background. Nicely captured.

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Comment posted by keith mitchell on May 15, 2012 at 3:43 AM

Thanks for looking and your comments,Gary re post -processing! wish i could say i did this or that but the truth of the matter is that apart from a little usm on resize i did nothing to this image and i am a bit annoyed with myself with having my iso at 500 [ typical novice

}no NR was applied anywhere on this image.
Keith.

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Comment posted by Sally Wood on May 15, 2012 at 6:08 AM

Lovely, lovely lighting, detail and back ground.. now we know why they say "Wise Eyes Owls!"

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Comment posted by Jenaya Launstein on May 15, 2012 at 12:38 PM

Wow, what amazing lighting you had! Awesome image; I absolutely love it! Love these owls!

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Comment posted by Nate Chappell on May 16, 2012 at 12:14 AM

Love the lighting and the face looks plenty sharp.

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Comment posted by Jim DeWitt on May 16, 2012 at 12:23 AM

Beautiful work, Keith. Sweet light and a nice pose.

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Comment posted by Richard Teller on May 16, 2012 at 1:21 PM

Sweet light. The detail, color, pose and background are really nice.

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Comment posted by May Haga on May 16, 2012 at 8:59 PM

One of my favorite owls beautifully captured. The lighting is excellent.
May

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Comment posted by Catherine Reilly on May 23, 2012 at 2:36 PM

Sorry I missed this before, Keith. Gorgeous lighting on a wonderful owl. Congrats on the Pick!

Was there a little breeze hitting the front of the bird, by any chance?

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Comment posted by keith mitchell on May 23, 2012 at 4:14 PM

Thanks a lot much appreciated.Catherine this Owl liked to pose and i was hoping for a lttle breeze to ruffle the feathers a bit.

Thanks Keith.

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Comment posted by Howard Cheek on May 23, 2012 at 7:24 PM

This is very nice. I especially like the evening light and warm color tones Keith.
Congrats on the WP, well deserved.