Great Horned Owl

[Jay R. Seltzer]

Taken at the World Bird Sanctuary in St. Louis.

EOS 40D
70-200mm
100mm for 1/50 sec at f/5.6
ISO 100

Jay Seltzer

[Lana Hays]

Jay
A very interesting closeup of a GHO...especially the reflection in the eye. There is a lot of detail in the image. I was think that it needed just a little boost of something. When I opened the image I noticed that you'd saved it in Adobe RBG. If you convert your images to sRGB and post to the web they will have a little more color which is what I saw when I converted it.
I have included one with the conversion t see what you think. I also added a very tiny amount of sharpening.

[Anita Rakestraw]

I like this comp very much! Great detail! I find both versions appealing.

[Jay R. Seltzer]

Lana, initially I didn't notice much difference in color or saturation on my Apple cinema display but did see better sharpness; however, when I looked at the pictures on a PC monitor at my office, there is clearly a difference, especially in the eye. Thanks.

I'm still learning about color space issues and am glad you pointed out the benefit of output as sRGB in this setting.

Jay