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Shot yesterday morning about 7:00. The owl was on a tree - flew (unfortunately in the wrong direction), but came back and landed in another tree. It sat there for 10 minutes before taking off for the marsh.
D300 - 600 VR with 1.4 tc. 1/200 at f6.3 ISO 220.
http://allanrube.smugmug.com/photos/...3_ZJzZg-X3.jpg
Allan:
Excellent exposure,nice light,neutral background,nice composition.
Look back helps as the bird is angled away just a bit.
You did well to freeze motion with this shutter speed. I would have been tempted to push the ISO up to 800 or so, to get some more flexibility. In a light scene like this, the D300 could easily handle ISO 800 without noise issues.
Thanks so much for sharing. Your snowie season must be just about done.
Randy
Stunning composition and I like the pose and fluffed feathers in this image as well as the great eye contact. The perch is a real plus in this capture. Many thanks for sharing.
Great pose and expression, and the perch really helps. Look back excellent. I see a bunch of burnt pixels, probably from misuse of curves and not in the original.
Cool pose and lookback. I might have gone to ISO 400 for higher shutter speed. I agree regarding some hot parts in the plumage. It should be easy to recover.
I actually think this came out well considering the low shutter speed. I shoot auto iso and at this early hour set the ss at 1/200 when the bird was perched on the tree. It flew off away from me and I thought it was gone - I was not expecting flight shots so I made no change to my ss. Then it flew back - was behind trees till the last moment so I did not take any flight shots - just got this landing.
Will work on recovering what I can in the hot spots.
