GHO Portrait

[Steve Canuel]

A tightly cropped portrait of a very tolerant owl. 7D, 500mm, f4.5, 1/160s, ISO 800, tripod, MLU, cable release, vertical crop from horizontal, PP with DPP and PSE 10.

[arash_hazeghi]

very cool eye contact! it's a bit tight for my taste, you can post 800 pixels tall.

[Shawn Zierman]

Excellent. I like the hint of greenery in the bg. Max eye contact here.
Beautiful bird...lucky you to find one so tolerant.

[dankearl]

The eyes are gorgeous, lucky you to get so close.
Nice IQ and stare,
It could be a bit looser crop for me.

[Satish Ranadive]

Beautiful portrait.Nice IQ.Love the eyes,colors and details on face.

Regards,
Satish.

[Randy Stout]

Steve:

Powerful eye contact. Always amazed by the soft feathers on the ears. Does look like a little motion blur on the ear on the left side of the frame.

Normally a looser crop would be preferable for me, but that perhaps would bring the bright BG into too much play.

Cheers

Randy

[Nick Palmieri]

Nice eye contact and I kind of like the tight crop in this case.

[Bob Malbon]

Even with a little more space you won't lose that eye contact - Nice detail.

[Robert Holguin]

Wonderful close up shot.
Love those eyes, excellent detail, and nice background.
Agree on a much more loose crop.
Well done.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Steve, a fine portrait. Lots of details and one awesome stare. My suggestion would be to add more at the bottom if you have. That will also get the eyes closer to rule-of-thirds...I think that will look better. It will be little more loose without getting any more BG in the frame.

[Steve Canuel]

Thank you all for the look, comments, and suggestions.

[Karl Egressy]

Nice portrait. I really like the colours and eyes.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Steve, great to see you popping in here, and what a great subject to share with us. I love all Owls, and I could look at the detail and patterns around the face for ages. Of course those two large eyes are memerising.

[Steve Canuel]

Thanks for the look Karl and Stuart.