burrowing owl

[Enrique Patino]

from last June.



7D, 500mm, 1/400, F/8.0, ISO 400, Manual, from car window resting on my hand

a little clean up of the ground, NR on the BG, slight blur of green veg, and cropped vertical from horizontal.

comments welcome

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose and close up details, nice eye contact I wish the eye was a bit more open

[Grace Scalzo]

Cute fluffly pose. When composing an image like this, I personally like to give the bird room to gaze into, so I recompose with less room on the right (as viewed) and more on the left. Just an option. Lots of interest and great detail throughout.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I love the unobstructed view of the feet. Good details and I also like the ruffled pose. Nice pose, and the vertical comp works for the most part...I just wish you had a pointed your lens a wee bit more to the left (giving you the comp suggested by Grace). I'd also be tempted to remove the white object touching the claw.

[Enrique Patino]

This bird was taking off and landing back on the same spot. I was hoping to get it taking off, thus I had composed the frame with the bird on the left. and then it went all fluffed.

I do however have more space... without doing all the work of cleaning and smoothing FG and BG, does this work better for those that suggest a diff comp? Thanks!

[Grace Scalzo]

Enrique...thank you for trying this suggestion. I like it much better...what do you think? It is a fine image.

[Loi Nguyen]

I'm with Grace on this one too. The RP is very nice in terms of composition. The sharpness of the feet and the killer BG made this image. Loi

[keith mitchell]

Love the pose and feather detail on this and I like the half closed eye it really works for me the composition on your repost really does work, excellent

Keith..

[Jim Crosswell]

I like the pose, details, sharpness and composition in the repost looks great. Excellent image Enrique!

[Satish Ranadive]

Excellent image. Love the fluffy feathers, beautiful colors, nice BG and composition in re post.

Regards,
Satish.

[Enrique Patino]

thank you for your comments!