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    Default Burrowing Owl Portrait

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    Image taken at Salton Sea, California last month. This is a male. He came out of the burrow and saw me and expressed some agitation, but his mate accepted me, so eventually he settled down. For more than 1 hour, they were just standing in front of the burrow, not hunting or anything, just sunning themselves. So I left to them to their own.

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    Cropped all around for comp, final image ~ 60% of FF

    Thank you for your comments.

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    Hello loi, the face does look a bit over sharpened on my monitor but that could be my eyes that apart I really like the pose and the bg,a real good looking image.

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    Loi,

    Nice stance, and it's good to see the stare in your direction.

    The shadows in the eyes are a bit of a bummer, but not much you could do about that.

    Miguel

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    Nice owl and pose. I would saturate the colours a tad more and decrese the light slider as the image appears a tad bright.

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    Nice shot Loi and I like the stare and the fact that the eyes are completely lit. The detail looks good to me but I too think it needs a slight decrease in exposure, maybe a third. Nice work.

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    Great shot, as previously stated a bit bright

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    Nice one.

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    Thank you everyone for your comments. I reduced the exposure by 0.22EV (the white is now at 228), cropped a wee bit on both left and right to avoid some distracting highlights in the BG, and back off on UMS. Before 100/0.3/0 => 80/0.3/0. It was a pretty sharp image to begin with :)

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    Great pose and setting you have here.

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    Loi the first post was very good, but the repost looks better to me.

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    Hi Loi,

    nice pose and wonderful eye contact. The repost works better as the OP. Well done, Loi

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