Im Watching You...

[Lance Peters]

On the road - working on a lap top - so hope the colour and brightness is not out of wack.....

D3
Nikon 300MM F2.8 with 1.7 X converter
f4.8
1/125th
-0.3EV
800 ISO
Matrix Metering


Huge crop - a tad more DOF would have been good - didn't have a tripod or flash with me - could have gone with a higher ISO but light was fallingg rapidly and still it would not have bought me a higher f stop whilst still having a shutter speed I could handhold.

Comments apprecitaed.

[Alberto Oria]

I like it Lance, I think it is a frogmouth?

[Alfred Forns]

I like it Lance Looks good from the laptop !!

Btw for the burrowing owls we use a technique late in the day for dof. Stop down to f 64 with a with a shutter speed of 1/15 or so then adjust the ISO to get a reasonable ambient exp.

Since the owl (tight image) will be lit by the flash as main light basically it will be sharp but the bg won't be black.... will be a little blurred .... Neat !!! About the only way to maximize the dof !!! With a 600 and two extension tubes is no much !!!

[Harold Davis]

awesome frogmouth, lance!! looks great on my screen!!!

[Gus Cobos]

I like this intense look...well done Mr. Peters...:cool:

[Lance Peters]

Hi Al - thanks for the tip :) :) - Dont know if I will be seeing this guy again :( Have not sighted them since the bushfires in our area - their favoruite perch was pretty badly burnt up. Finegrs crosssed they survived.

[Oscar Zangroniz]

Very intense portrait Lance with lots of details.