The Wild Bunch

[Steve Canuel]

20D, 500/4, f10, 1/40s, ISO 400, -1/3 EC, tripod mount, MLU, cable release, cropped for pano.

[Kiran Poonacha]

What a beautiful sight this is. this is what we live for. Just loved the image..thanks for sharing..

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Steve, I dont have a single owl in my gallery, and you capture five in one image. If I am correct, you had all five in your original shot, but changed a few heads. Great pp work, and thanks for the honesty. I would maybe lighten all five a tad - they will pop from the darker BG. Great capture.

[Steve Canuel]

Hi Steve, I dont have a single owl in my gallery, and you capture five in one image. If I am correct, you had all five in your original shot, but changed a few heads. Great pp work, and thanks for the honesty. I would maybe lighten all five a tad - they will pop from the darker BG. Great capture.

Thanks Stuart. The bodies did not move. Two of the heads were angled differently than what you see. I copied one image that had the head angles I wanted, pasted it on top of the other image that had the other two head angles I liked, then erased the heads of the two off the top layer to reveal the heads on the bottom one. I didn't have to realign anything since I was stationary on the tripod and the owls were only turning their heads.

[Steve Maxson]

Five little owls, all in a row... (I'm sure someone more clever than me could make a nice rhyme out of that :) ). Nice work on the post-processing - I don't think anyone would be able to tell if you hadn't pointed it out (and I still can't tell which two you changed). I agree with Stuart that a little lightening of the birds might be an improvement. Well done.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

You really got your owls in a row. :) Thanks for the explanation of your workflow. I like the composition, eye contact and sharpness. DOF looks good and I don't think there was a way to get the one on the right sharp, too without compromising image quality with a very high ISO. Maybe a slightly higher color temperature?

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

Thanks for disclosing your process. I love the result. Man, five in a row! How lucky can you get?
I particularly love the eyes on the second one from the left. Congrats and thanks for sharing. :)

[Ramon M. Casares]

It looks good! I like the scene. BG is a little bussy but it works for me. Good PS work. Congratulations!

[Art Kornienko]

So interesting to look at, great work.

[Steve Canuel]

Thanks for the comments everyone.