First Post: Fishing Bay Short-ear

[Jim Flowers]

I decided to share a favorite from a week ago of a Short-eared Owl from Fishing Bay Maryland as my first post to this forum. I had the opportunity after many weeks of waiting thes guys out to get over 400 images of different poses from 4 different birds. Taken with the Canon EOS 5D (Older), Ef 400 f2.8L with the newest 2X III teleconverter. Near full frame at 800mm, ISO 800,, f6.3.

http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u115/dizzyduck69/Short-earedOwl1114.jpg

C&C Most Welcome!


Jim

[Doug Brown]

Welcome to BPN Jim! You picked a great image for your first post on Avian. Like the fluffed up feathers, eye contact, and sharpness. The BG suits the bird quite well. There's a little noise apparent in a couple of places. The new 2x really comes into its own when stopped down a full stop (f/8 in this case). Not sure what your shutter speed was, but trading a little of it for more DOF could have improved image quality.

[Brendan Dozier]

Very nice Jim! Excellent detail, eyes, sharp and great feather fluff pose. Like how you placed subject in composition. Congrats on a awesome first post!

[Neil Nourse]

Hey Jim, good to see you on here!!

Background color really compliments the owl. Love the comp.

[arash_hazeghi]

the pose is great but the image quality is lacking, maybe too much noise reduction or a very tight crop.