Flying eyes

[arash_hazeghi]

Juvenile burrowing owl checking out the photographer.

1DX 600 II + 1.4X III f/5.6 1/3200sec ISO 640 handheld. click to expand. hope you like it.

[Sanjeev Aurangabadkar]

Beautiful eye contact and super wing position! Very very cool!

[Markus Jais]

Stunning as always. The wing pose and the eye contact are just perfect.

Markus

[Iain Barker]

HI Arash

I love the wing and head position and the nice clean background. Have you sharpened the head and eyes? To me the right side of the head and eyes look too sharp in comparison to the rest of the bird. This might just be me though, what do you think?

Iain

[arash_hazeghi]

HI Arash

I love the wing and head position and the nice clean background. Have you sharpened the head and eyes? To me the right side of the head and eyes look too sharp in comparison to the rest of the bird. This might just be me though, what do you think?

Iain

no Ian, it looks good to me

thanks

[Iain Barker]

I think it is probably because I don't sharpen my own images enough. I am never sure how far to go with sharpening for web.
Great image by the way.

[gail bisson]

Absolutely stupendous.
Love the wing position and direct gaze. IQ is perfect.
The BG compliments the owl perfectly and the light is beautiful.
One of your best images this year!
Gail

[arash_hazeghi]

I think it is probably because I don't sharpen my own images enough. I am never sure how far to go with sharpening for web.
Great image by the way.

If the RAW is sharp you do not need to sharpen your photos much, just use sharpening with a fine radius (0.5) on the final image after resizing.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Now that is awesome!! I commented about the far eye in one of your recent images of this species...but this more than makes up for it. I really like the bit of green in the BG too.

[Rachel Hollander]

Hi Arash - stunning with perfect placement in frame and your usual spot on techs. The eye contact and wing position just take it over the top. Congrats!

TFS,
Rachel

[Karl Egressy]

Striking flight image, Arash. Love the background, pose end eye contact.

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the wing position, sharpness, details, exposure, composition and complimentary BG. Excellent image Arash!

[Melissa Groo]

Oh man, this is just heartstoppingly good, Arash! That awesome look at you! The beautiful curving line of the near wing! What a stupendous photo. I agree, one of your best this year. Makes me want to toss me camera in the nearest pond...

[Shawn Zierman]

Your body of flight images of this species is certainly the best overall collection I've seen. The eye contact really holds the attention here. Awesome image in every way.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

This image kicks some major bootay Arash. Love that stare and the light sheeesh. Really nice

[Martin Dunn]

Very impressive.
Capturing the owl in flight is achievement enough but to get that stare as well .. WOW!

The background works very well and has enough subtle variation to not be too bland.
Composition works for me too.

[LinzRiverBalmer]

Speechless, enter it in everything, or send it to me for Christmas.

not one hair out of place.

question.... The BG how did you achieve this? Mask?

trying to figure out BG processing, posted question in discussion forum, but this BG is my ideal.... Still see colors that are natural, but just smooth and well done.

[shane shacaluga]

Two words IN CREDIBLE!!!

TFS!! ;)

[jack williamson]

Another top notch flight image Arash! The face and eyes are sharp as a tack.

Jack

[arash_hazeghi]

Speechless, enter it in everything, or send it to me for Christmas.

not one hair out of place.

question.... The BG how did you achieve this? Mask?

trying to figure out BG processing, posted question in discussion forum, but this BG is my ideal.... Still see colors that are natural, but just smooth and well done.

Thanks Linz.

smooth BG is a result of using long focal length and fast aperture.

best

[Jamie Medford]

That is a truly superb shot, bet you were grinning when you saw that on the monitor!

[yogesh_puranik]

wow one of the best in flight image. the most amazing thing is great eye contact. definitely sharpness, wing position and BG stood out as well.
Any specific reason owl is looking at you? also how come it is eye level.

[arash_hazeghi]

thanks Yogesh,

The owl does look at anyone and it surroundings, you just have to be fast enough to get it. I don't quite understand your last question, of course you take photos when bird is at eye level.


thanks everyone for nice comments

[David Salem]

PRINT!!

[mohammad reza shahab]

Hi Arash,
I like the wing position.
Excellent sharpness, details, exposure, composition.