Whatever critique, this image and bird will remain one of those special meetings.
I was walking throught he forest near Playa Matapalo on Costa Ricas Osa pPeninsula when I spotted this fella hiding in the trees.
I think this is the dark morph.
Conditions for getting a shot were pretty bad, bright sun directly behind but very dark and dense forest
Anyways I had a go and I have some pics so I am posting so thos einterested can see the species. I have taken out the sticky BG with a 2 gaussian, sharpened in smart and denoised
Played around with S& H and I think its not so bad. These are very uncommon birds I was lucky to see it.
Taken from tripod, in thick jungle with the 100-400 at 285 f 5.6 Ev +1 ISO 800
anfd my 7D
Last edited by Richard Unsworth; 06-28-2012 at 01:11 PM.
Sometimes we have to take what we get Richard. Love the Owl (what a stare) and great environmental shot. Kind of looks like one of my old College Professors...Nice Catch
Sure one day I may catch one in the open; incidentally this was in fact the first Owl I ever took a picture of.
It was even difficult to get through the jungle to get this shot; there are some bad things in there lol, and in fact when I left I had got lost for a few minutes - eek
i feel like people have no idea about how hard is to find this owl
not even get a nice shot
sometimes have to walk for hours to see one them
then yure image is great for me bro i have never seen this one
Thanks, yes sometimes it is very difficult to even find these species, the forest is so dense and the light is crazy too
but this is why I love CR , so much fun, wish I was out there right now! In one year of walking I only saw this one Owl!!
Crested Owl
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