Barred Owl Flight

[Jim Neiger]

Here is another Barred Owl image from my Osprey Heaven workshop.

Indian River County, Florida - 1DX, 600mm, hand held from boat, 1/2500, F5.6, ISO 800, manual exposure

[Joel Eade]

Love the tack sharp face and the unusual background, very lovely image!

[Troy Lim]

Nice in flight shot, like the wide perspective on this to give it a hint of the habitat. Upper right corner has some PP artifact.

[gail bisson]

Hi Jim,
Eye catching because of the unusual BG. I am wondering what you did to the BG post processing ( if anything at all).
I like all the space you gave the owl.
Owl is nice and sharp and the wing position in nice and symmetrical but my personal taste would like wings fully up or fully down,
Gail

[Robert Kimbrell]

A lovely image Jim, The background is nice yet very bold. Will you tell us a little about the background?

[Jim Neiger]

The BG is a combination of vegetation, Cypress trees growing from the lake bottom, water of the lake, and sky. The only thing done to the bg was noise reduction.

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice one Jim!
That BG has so much colour, just love it. Of course the BG makes the owl to stand quite nicely, very cool image.

[Miguel Palaviccini]

Jim, another great owl post!

If it were mine, I'd reduce the saturation in the background a bit.