You again!

[Richard Unsworth]

:S3:

Athene looking straight at the camera

OOC with crop to vertical, NR and sharpening

7D ISO 1000 100-400 1.4tc1 HH SPOT METER 1/1000

[John Robinson]

Best one yet in my humble opinion.
JR

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi Richard, just need to tame the highlights, I think we need to exchanged some ideas on maximising these shots.

TFS
Steve

[keith mitchell]

Hi Richard, I like the frontal pose on this one showing the eyes, agree with Steve re the highlights ,those owls are certainly giving you some great shots.

Keith:S3:

[Richard Unsworth]

Advise on highlights - histogram show nice distribution with nothing clipped, easy enough to lessen but
what method you use - curves, or LR adjustment brush, contrast, 2% burn brush and so on.

color - wb set to AWB seems to be too red at sunset as one would expect, I sometimes readjust in ACR to daylight then set black/white points?
ACR in CC can now be reloaded as a filter, so this can give control on highlights too

each way can produce very different results - which is stating the obvious lol

of course people see things in different ways....:-)

[Holger Leyrer]

Cool :S3:
i like the eye contact and color.