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    Barn Owl ( Tyto Alba ) hunting Voles over rough grassland.

    Hi everyone, this is my first image post so please be gentle with me :) the standards on here are very high so honest critique would be very welcome.

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    Exposure and BG are Great. Eye is good and sharp. Only nit is that a faster ISO would have given you a smaller f stop which would have allowed you to stop the wing movement. I still would love to have this in my files.

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    Welcome to BPN Tony. The owl pops from the BG nicely, and sits nicely in your comp. I think you have exposed this well enough, and looks sharp. Looking forward to more.

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    I´m surpriced that you can get this species out in the open at day time. Here in Sweden (where Barn Owls are almost extinct and very rare they are strictly nocturnal). I love the wing position and the legs hanging down. The DOF is fine for me and sharpness is spot on. Is the bird ringed?

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    I think you did a good job with this barn owl and i would like to be so lucky as to have one like it.

    On another note I do not get what joe is trying to convey. a smaller f stop would not stop motion just increase dof.

    Faster shutter speed stops motion and you are quite fast here

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    Hi Joe, iso settings on my camera seem to give alot of nosie above the 250 range, partly to me exposing images wrong but also to what I think was a friday afternoon build on my camera. So for that reason I always try to stay at 250 or below.
    A higher iso would have given me a faster shutter speed at that aperture but I would have lost the speed if I'd had stopped down.

    Hi Daniel, Barn Owls often fly in daylight over here during the winter months or if they have young to feed. Best times are from December to late March. The bird is ringed as are most of the Barn Owls in this country. They are in decline over here too due to intensive farming and the conversion of barns to houses so the BTO and a few other groupd monitor the birds by ringing them. My friend and I put up as many nest boxes on sutable sites as we can to help them out.

    Many thanks for the comments.
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    Welcome Tony. I think that this is an outstanding image. As above, I love the wing position and the hanging feet.

    What was the situation, i.e., did you just happen to be in the perfect spot, were you aware of the bird's habit, or was it some sort of set-up?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Joe Senzatimore View Post
    Exposure and BG are Great. Eye is good and sharp. Only nit is that a faster ISO would have given you a smaller f stop which would have allowed you to stop the wing movement. I still would love to have this in my files.
    Hey Joe, I think that you mis-spoke. A smaller aperture would yield a bit of extra d-o-f. It would take a faster shutter speed to better freeze the wings. Raising the ISO could give you either depending on the mode that you are in.
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    Welcome to BPN, Tony. Lovely first post. I really like the wing position and see no motion blur. The flight angle is perfect and gives great eye contact. I would lighten the dark OOF areas behind the owl's right wing. Some may feel the issue of being ringed qualifies this for the Hand of Man Gallery. My view may be a little skewed but in NZ many of our endangered birds have to be closely monitored to ensure survival so a large proportion of the Wild and Free population are ringed.
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    Hi Arthur, thanks for the welcome and comment. As for the image situation, I spend a lot of time driving around Norfolk which is a strong hold for the Barn Owls looking for suitable sites. This field is a favourite hunting area for 2 pairs of Barn Owls and I was fortunate that the wind direction was coming from over my head, Barn Owls always like to head into a breeze when hunting as it helps them hang in the air. I positioned myself half way down a hedge line keeping low with the sun directly behind me and just waited for the Owl to come to me. It was a very rare day in which I managed to get everything right and the Owl was very obliging and wasn't at all bothered by the shutter nosie, which is a first.

    Hi Tony, the Barn Owls are ringed when they are chicks, the rings have ID numbers that give DOB and area of birth plus a contact number so if the bird is found dead or injured, they can tell how far it has travelled and how long it has lived for. That is the only human contact they have, ringed when a chick. I hate the rings, but that's the photographer in me, if it helps in the survival of this beautiful bird then so be it.

    Many thanks for the comments.
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    Thanks for the info Tony. It's great that you used your knowledge of the subject to put yourself in the right spot and make a great image.

    BTW, easy to lose the ring if you are OK with that. Let's see more great stuff like this!
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