Great Horned Owl (C)

[Malcolm Benn]

This is an image of a captive bird taken last Saturday at Ray Barlow's workshop.
Canon 50D
Canon 300 2.8
Aperture-priority @f/5.6
¹/1,600 sec
ISO 200
Exposure Compensation -4/3

[Raymond Barlow]

killer shot bud... I would suggest you clone the one white spot behind the talons on our left side, but other then that.. very cool.

[Harshad Barve]

amazing image and great position
lovely eye contact
TFS

[Randy Stout]

Malcolm:

Very intense stare here. I like the strong diagonal elements, the fact that the body is banked a bit to his right, talons. From a comp. standpoint, I might try cropping in from the right, as that area doesn't add much, since his attention is clearly focused straight ahead. I don't think you have to worry about it seeming too centered. Matter of personal taste.

From a technical standpoint, there are hot spots scattered throughout the plumage, so would back off the highlight recovery slider just a bit.

Hope to see more from this series!

Randy

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Cool pose and eye contact. Adding to the other comments, I would increase the color temperature, it has a slight blueish cast on my monitor.

[Danny Laredo]

This is great, love the intensity in the eyes.

[Steve Canuel]

Great pose. I like the head on look and the tail feathers sticking out on the side. BG looks pretty good too.