Bryan Munn
02-06-2014, 01:23 PM
I found this owl softly hooting in broad daylight...highly unusual in my experience. No audio was played to get it started, but while taking pictures I hooted a couple of times to get it to look at me...which basically did not work as the bird seemed thoroughly indifferent to my presence. The fact that it was hooting gave it a more alert posture which I really liked. Most great horned owls I see in the daytime are upright and sleeping.
Shot was Nikon DF, 500mm F4(P), 1/200 F5.6, ISO 400. The bird was approachable but I used a 1.4 T/C for a more "straight on" angle as it was about 15 feet up. I don't know what "actual" F reading that resulted in as it is old equipment and the camera does not record that stuff....F6.3 maybe?
It was cropped a bit on the right side. In the original exposure the background directly behind the bird was sort of busy with twigs growing out of the owls head and all that....so I darkening it about a stop and removed a couple of twigs. I also removed a couple of distracting out of focus foreground branches.
Thanks for looking!
Shot was Nikon DF, 500mm F4(P), 1/200 F5.6, ISO 400. The bird was approachable but I used a 1.4 T/C for a more "straight on" angle as it was about 15 feet up. I don't know what "actual" F reading that resulted in as it is old equipment and the camera does not record that stuff....F6.3 maybe?
It was cropped a bit on the right side. In the original exposure the background directly behind the bird was sort of busy with twigs growing out of the owls head and all that....so I darkening it about a stop and removed a couple of twigs. I also removed a couple of distracting out of focus foreground branches.
Thanks for looking!