March Theme : Straight down the barrel - Short-eared Owl in Habitat

[Desmond Chan]

70-300 @ 300 + D700 hand-held. All natural light. ISO 3200 f10 1/125s

Nearly full-frame.

Comments welcome and appreciated. Thank you for looking !!

http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5020/5497947263_1dc7318bbb_b.jpg

[Art Kornienko]

Love the light and angle. Plenty sharp. Not sure if there was some branch cloning on left side?

[Daniel Cadieux]

Man, with the size of those pupils you can tell it was getting dark out there! A bit of blood on the plumage makes it look like a recent kill was done. I'd have been tempted to zoom wider and open up a bit more to help with the BG. Did you try some verticals too? Still an awesome opportunity and you made very good with it.

[Desmond Chan]

I'd have been tempted to zoom wider and open up a bit more to help with the BG.

My concern was the DOF though. I was approximately 12 ft away, and the DOF is only 3.12 inches according to on-line DOF calculator.



Did you try some verticals too?

Yes.