Great Horned Owl

[Jim Neiger]

Adult Male Great Horned Owl - Southern Idaho - 1DX, 600mm+1.4xTC, hand held, 1/1000, F5.6, ISO 1250, manual exposure

[Karl Egressy]

Nice pose and excellent IQ, Jim.

[arash_hazeghi]

What a beautiful portrait Jim!

[Diane Miller]

Stunning! I love how the yellow leaves in the BG repeat the color in the eyes.

[Randy Stout]

Jim:

Love the pose with the slight lean, nice view of feet, agree about the yellow flowers/eye.

Did the bg require any post processing?

Quite a rig to hand hold!

Cheers

Randy

[keith mitchell]

Excellent IQ and hand held that is very impressive, yellow bits in the b/g do add to the image.

[William Dickson]

Lovely portrait Jim. The bird is nice and sharp, great pose and the BG colours fit well. Thanks for sharing

[Jim Neiger]

Jim:

Love the pose with the slight lean, nice view of feet, agree about the yellow flowers/eye.

Did the bg require any post processing?

Quite a rig to hand hold!

Cheers

Randy

Thanks Randy. The only thing done to the bg was NR in PS. I did this selectively to the BG only. I never do NR on the subject.

[gail bisson]

Beautiful portrait of a wonderful subject.
I wonder if an increase in the brightness of the owl might improve this terrific image. I say this because I see a bit of pink in the whites.
I too, wondered if you had done some pruning of the BG. Very nice of the owl to perch right in that spot!!
Well done,
Gail

[Bill Dix]

Fabulous portrait! I, too, love the yellow leaves and eyes. It might be worth trying a slight Levels adjustment to pull up the whites just a bit; but not if it compromises the nice dusky feeling, which is the way we see these guys (if we're lucky enough to see them at all).

[David Salem]

What a great looking portrait of this beautiful Owl Jim. Nice that you got her in a open spot of the tree, not the norm, at least for me. Great detail and exposure and the BG is just far enough behind her to make a pleasing blur. Very nice. BFAM