Juvi GHO Pano - WC644

Hi all! This is a pano featuring two juvenile Great Horned Owls from a farm just a mile or two down the road from us in SW Alberta.

Josiah and I have been following these two and their two siblings around as often as we can in the evenings the past month, and while I kind of wished for all four to be perched as the last moments of sunlight bathed the fields in colour, I was quite pleased with this comp and the cooperation of at least these two.

This is about 95% of full frame width, but is just under 50% of normal height to exclude the farmhouse and background trees and other potentially distracting elements.

I have already desaturated the greens appreciably and Josiah and I feel this accurately portrays the wonderful, rich colours that were so vivid as the sun slipped below the mountains to our west.

While not a full-on landscape, I love the lines of the crops in the field and of course the wonderful fence line as it follows the rolls of the land.

Hope you enjoy!

Field Notes:
Nikon D600
Nikkor AF-S 500mm f/4 IF-ED
ISO 500
1/500sec @ f/6.3
tripod mounted
cable release with live view (mirror up)

Processing Notes:
Converted from RAW using Phase One Capture One Pro 7
Minor corrections to colour and tone using Nik Color Efex Pro 4 and desaturated slightly with Nik Viveza 2 with light selective sharpening in PS5
Cropped slightly from original width and signficantly from height to create pano