Barn Owl

[Jonathan Ashton]

Tripod, mongoose head,Canon 7D Canon 500mm f4L IS & 1.4TC1 ISO 800 1/1250 sec f6.3

This is the same owl I posted yesterday, it is the next frame captured. I have cropped a little tighter this time and also increased the sharpening on the head, in much the way Doug suggested.
All C & C welcome.

[arash_hazeghi]

excellent ! Great pose and nice soft light. This one is better than the last one with great wing position for both near and far wings . details are good just need to sharpen a bit more. I see some clone artifacts under the yellow spot by the far wing?

[Richard Unsworth]

Beautiful Jon, I have been unable to get shots of my local BOwl due to the bad weather.
BG is very nice too

[Nick Palmieri]

Love the wing/head position and love the BG. Very sweet capture!

[Joe Senzatimore]

Nice image and comp. BG sets this off well. Just a touch soft. Re-post looks much better.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Thanks for the C&C everyone. Arash yes hawk man or should it be hawk eye you spotted an area that I missed, the irritating thing is that I did actually check to make sure I had tidied things up!! The bird was too low in the frame so I re-cropped lower to add canvas, then I filled using content aware and then I went over the edge to smooth it out with the clone tool,but I obviously missed this vertical edge.

[Lorant Voros]

These owls are fun. Very nice, Jon; better than the previous one. I like your choice of cropping. Congratulations.

[Doug Brown]

Definitely better than the first shot. Credit to Arash for the cloning artifact pick-up and also for the nice repost.

[christopher galeski]

nice image Jonathan,best out of the 2posts,like Arash post.thanks.

[Grace Scalzo]

What a beautiful image, nice catch and tweaks by Arash.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Hey Grace now I am confused because I see the same artefact in Arash's repost (???)

[arash_hazeghi]

Hey Grace now I am confused because I see the same artefact in Arash's repost (???)

Hey Jon I did not touch the artifacts just sharpened the image

[DanieBenade]

Great BIF, good detail in whites.

[Sidharth Kodikal]

Excellent pose and details. Bg/habitat is superb. Love the pop that sharpening has added in Arash's repost.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Hey Jon I did not touch the artifacts just sharpened the image

Yes that's ok, that's what I thought