Rusty Little owlet

[dennis greenwood]

Canon 1d mkiv 500mm f4 at 5.6 640m iso 1/800sec -1/3 ev

[Daniel Cadieux]

Quite the little urban dweller eh! I love the grumpy look with the dishevelled plumage. The central comp work well with the head-on pose. Of course an all natural environment would be swell, but I like this full on hand-of-man setting. Perhaps toning down the brightest band would help with the BG IMO, and I'd also try to eliminate the thin grayish streak near the top.

[John Robinson]

Hi Den
I would go for a vertical crop ! No doubt about it ! If you have the space you can reduce it a bit to not loose too much IQ.
Johh

[Jonathan Ashton]

The owl looks cute but I am sorry the background doesn't look good at all to me.

[MiroslavMaric]

I agree with above comments, would like to see a different BG and vertical crop. TFS.

Cheers,
Miro

[dennis greenwood]

Thanks all.the background is were the little chap was born,just a pile of old rusty RSGs ,unfortunately at this site it is surrounded by old farm machinery and its were they tend to venture to,

[Joseph Przybyla]

Hi Dennis, beautiful little guy. You are so fortunate to have your owls to photograph. Lovely image, I agree with him looking grumpy... maybe just woke up. If mine I would try a vertical crop, 4x5 vertical. A wonderful image as is, thank you for sharing.