Banking short eared owl

[Mike Poole]

Another form the 2 passes in decent light - have to post plenty of these as owls in good light is a rarity here! Tried to take on board some of the processing critique from the last one - thanks everyone who commented. A bit of posterisation in the BG thats not there on the TIFF

Nikon D500
Nikon 600mm f4 + 1.4x
ISO 1250
1600th / f5.6

Mike

[arash_hazeghi]

light is awesome here, love the pose and the lit up underside. Wish you has used a faster shutter speed to get a sharper file. for a subject like this D500 can go up to ISO 2000 that would have given you 1/3200 sec

TFS

[Colin Driscoll]

Lovely shot, Australian owls are strictly nocturnal so no opportunity to capture them in reasonable light.

[gail bisson]

Killer BG. Nice light and pose.
I would sharpen the eye/head a bit more.
Gail

[Mike Poole]

light is awesome here, love the pose and the lit up underside. Wish you has used a faster shutter speed to get a sharper file. for a subject like this D500 can go up to ISO 2000 that would have given you 1/3200 sec

TFS

Cheers Arash, I went with less sharpening this time due to comments on my previous thread. Here's a version with my regular sharpening. Still getting used to how far I can push the D500

Killer BG. Nice light and pose.
I would sharpen the eye/head a bit more.
Gail

Any better Gail?

Mike

[John Mack]

Well the repost is much better in terms of sharpness. The light was nice and the background as well.

[dankearl]

Repost is better, BG and light are very nice with this great subject.

[arash_hazeghi]

I agree the repost here is a better

[William Dickson]

Nice shot Mike, the repost looks better to me. Lovely BG colours and nice detail on the bird. I like your crop. Never seen one of these up here for over a year now.

Will

[Arthur Morris]

Quite well done. My only wish is that we the near-wing were completely raised so that we could have seen the full underwing ...

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