Barn owl, captive.

[dave v]

A portrait of an un-releasable Barn Owl taken at a raptor release event.

Canon XSi with a Canon 300 f2.8 lens.

http://davev.smugmug.com/photos/289830372_XFrKz-XL.jpg

[Lana Hays]

Dave
Barn Owls are certainly a fascination of mine. I love this. The pose is stunning and the green BG just couldn't be better. Detail and sharpness are excellent. On my laptop at home it seems a bit dark.....but all images seem a tad dark. I'll check it on another monitor at school. The main reason to check the eye. They have dark eyes....hard to get detail or catchlight. When I down loaded it and lightened using the middle slider in levels I noticed a great deal of detail in the eye. This image is just beautiful. I'll hopefully have a chance of one next weekend......can hardly wait.

[dave v]

Dave
Barn Owls are certainly a fascination of mine. I love this. The pose is stunning and the green BG just couldn't be better. Detail and sharpness are excellent. On my laptop at home it seems a bit dark.....but all images seem a tad dark. I'll check it on another monitor at school. The main reason to check the eye. They have dark eyes....hard to get detail or catchlight. When I down loaded it and lightened using the middle slider in levels I noticed a great deal of detail in the eye. This image is just beautiful. I'll hopefully have a chance of one next weekend......can hardly wait.

Thanks Lana.
On my monitor I have it light enough to see the eye, but it could be a little dark.
I hope you found your barn owl to shoot.