I have been working on images from a trip last April to southwest Florida to photograph Burrowing Owls. This male was perched on a post near the burrow/nest. The female with this years owlets were inside the burrow. Comments and critique welcomed and appreciated. Thank you for viewing.
Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/500 F/5.6 Matrix Metering +2/3 EV ISO 1100, camera supported by a monopod
Post processed in Lightroom 6 and Photoshop Elements 10
Cropped for composition and presentation
Last edited by Joseph Przybyla; 11-27-2015 at 09:49 AM.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Hi Joe, like the look to camera, but if you have it, then a bit more of the perch below would be nice, it's a wee bit tight. Overall I find it a bit 'contrasty' with regard to the Whites & Blacks and so lacking the more finer detail within the plumage, is it a large crop? For the future I would think about using a tripod, better balance and will give you a steadier perch, BTW are you using 'back button?'
John, Keith, and Steve, thank you for viewing and commenting. Very much appreciated...
Steve, the contrast is an easy fix. I had increased it with a S-curve, for some reason I thought the image appeared flat. Not sure about more room on the bottom I will have to check the original. Here is the image without the S-curve.
Joe Przybyla
"Sometimes I do get to places just as God is ready to have somebody click the shutter"... Ansel Adams
Hi Joe, did you increase the Blacks and or Clarity, I'm just trying to find what you did in the initial process, as I know you have the finer detail from previous images and so provide a steer in trying to extract more without too much additional work.
I post at some point an example of where I'm going with my thinking.
Terrific pose, great bg, fabulous stare. I prefer the repost, but would like to see a bit more room. Perch and background look far nicer than what I saw on my one visit to the Cape Coral library site, so I'm guessing this might be somewhere else?