African Pearl Spotted Owlet

[Shreyas Mantri]

Hello All,
I found this little guy on my recent trip to Namibia. It's one of the smallest Owls, I believe. For scale, spot the fly in the frame :S3:

Canon 7D, 300mm 2.8 II, Manual, f/3.5, 1/800s, ISO 200
Processed with Silver Efex Pro.

Comments welcome!
Shreyas


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[Oscar Baez Soria]

Impressive DoF and bokeh. Love the textures on the bird itself and exposure is spot on. I would try to clone out the branch that passes over its head to eliminate that distraction and give him/her some more headroom.

[Allen Sparks]

Hi Shreyas,
Nice detail and exposure on the bird and I like the overall composition showing habitat except for the branch over the owl's head as Oscar mentioned. Agree that cloning this out would help the image.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Neat little owl, but bummer about that branch above its head. I'd also prefer it looking down at us. I do like the BG alot, and the perch itself is good too (you could eliminate the little twig touching the belly).