Eagle owl (c)

I am afraid another captive falconry shot but I personally think a really interesting shot. The owl had ruffled its feathers a couple of times and the last time I had a shot in mind and manged to get the head in focus and the rest showing movement. I guess some people will like it and others hate it, but please keep comments about photography and not an argument about wild and captive birds.

C&C welcome


Nikon D300 + 300 f2.8 lens + 1.7x TC
F5.0 1/100Sec iso200

You post your images Ben and you then leave yourself open to comments. Thats the idea.
You cant pick and choose what people care to say otherwise it no longer fufils its purpose.

Major

Captive bird shots don't worry me but I'm afraid this doesn't work for me. I find it too tight in the frame and the bird is at an unattractive angle. Its neither stationary or in flight. Sorry but thats just a personal view, others may really like it.

I,ve come back to this a few times and still can't make my mind up. Something tells me a tight crop around the head only might be better.
I,m not too bothered about the captive bit aapart from the fact that I,ve had a lifetime of hassle about nest photography as we all did it, but captive birds dont get any where near so much flack. But that's beside the point.
Cheers
JohnR

I very nearly like this one Ben, the sharpness of the head and the movement in the body is great, but there is a bit of the oof foreground directly in line with the beak that is spoiling the shot for me. I have no problem with the rest of the foreground 'mush' but that part is a bit intrusive on the actual subject. I have no problem with captive bird images as long as they are captioned as such.
Robert.

Hi Ben,

It's a good start. Next time get the Falconer to get it on a Hare or Fox carcass

Regards

Rob