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One Isiah

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Posted by eric weight on January 3, 2008 at 10:19 AM
One Isiah
Not a great technical picture, - it is a big crop and a lot of photoshop stuff just to get it vaguely presentable, but I just love that one peering round the corner and thought you might like to see it. I think they had spotted me!

400D 100-400 @400
iso 800 1/320 f5.6
25% of original, CS2 levels/curves/selective sharpening etc. etc.
:wavey: Eric
Posted by Andy Shepherd on January 3, 2008 at 10:33 AM
Hi Eric,

As you say , technially not so good , but arn't Little Owls great :toast:

Regards

Andy... :smile: :wink: :smile:
Posted by eric weight on January 3, 2008 at 10:40 AM
Absolutely love 'em and one day I will get a decent shot of these two. Technically even worse than I had thought loads of smudges left in the shot which I missed - sorry.
Posted by Andy Shepherd on January 3, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Hi Eric,

No problem , I don't have a Little Owl shot so I'd be more than pleased with it and with a little more time spent in PS I think it could make a very nice image , good capture.

Regards

Andy... :smile:
Posted by Alan Bryant on January 3, 2008 at 11:47 AM
Eric with this one for presentation, it would look better adding a 1pixel black line border around the image(via select all/right click/stroke), as the white sky is blending into the white BG on the page, making the shot look strange.

Other than that, i like the "peeka-boo" feel to the image :cool:
Posted by John Varley on January 3, 2008 at 11:48 AM
I think this is a very pleasing pic Eric. The key thing is you got the picture. I just love that single eye peering out.
Posted by eric weight on January 3, 2008 at 12:34 PM
I think I had saved it at the wrong size as well Alan. Black border is a good idea, thanks.
Posted by Alan Bryant on January 3, 2008 at 12:57 PM
Hi Eric :smile:

Looking at the shot again(oh better with the black line :cool: ), i think a tighter crop would really suit the image better.

See what i have done, just to give you an example :smile:

EDIT - Just read that this is already a big crop, so what i just suggested might not work ?.
Posted by Paul Ashton on January 3, 2008 at 2:11 PM
Great title. Gave me a chuckle. What characters. Thanks for posting.