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During the Birding & Photography Festival in St. Augustine this year we had the opportunity to have access to some captive rehab birds of prey. The burrowing owls were especially cute. I used PB and Topaz Clean on this little guy.
Thanks for looking. Comments and suggestions appreciated.:S3:
Beautifully framed, Cheryl. Nicely processed, with nice neutral BG and engaging pose. Love the Owls................I'm thinking the left eye could use a catch light. Otherwise, very well done.
Hi Cheryl, lovely owl. Agree with Jay on the catch-light for the left eye and maybe a touch of additional sharpening on that eye also as it looks a little softer than the right eye. Nice work with PB! :S3:
Cheryl, This is lovely, I like the pose and filtering very much. The spotlight behind suggests directional light and a catchlight in the left eye would seem unnatural to me.:S3:
Cheryl, this is a really nice base image...I hesitate to make suggestions on this one because mine are more a matter of personal preference...it's always a fine line between suggesting what might make the image better and what you would do with the image personally...does that make sense? At any rate, I'm wading in...:w3...I would have like to have seen just a touch more detail brought back in to the feathers...and owls have such intense eyes that I would have been tempted to use the saturation brush to bring out a little more color to the yellow of the eyes as well. BUT...having said that...it would be a very different interpretation, and your image stands on its own merit...so I'm just thinking out loud on this one!
The processing fits the subject very well on this one.
