Great Horned Owl (c)

[Raymond Barlow]

D300 / 200-400 VR @ 200mm
1/2500 sec, f4, iso 320
hand held, natural light, slight crop

Taken at last weekends bif workshop near Simcoe Ontario, Canada.

[Fabs Forns]

WOW, ray, the bird is going after your lens hood LOL
Interesting how they flap the horns for flight.
Very clear capture, full of beauty, where do you get all of these captive beauties???

[Jim Fenton]

This certainly shows quite the intent stare Ray :)

Light looks a bit tough but you did well with the exposure.

I like the OOF background which still renders some of the original detail without taking away from the main subject.

[Malcolm Benn]

Intense shot Ray .. I'd be ducking about NOW :)

[Harshad Barve]

What a stare , you gotta love those eyes here
TFS

[paul leverington]

Ray this is quite awesome I'd say! The stare of course-- but also that very dynamic background makes this rock. There's definitely a lot of very nice 3d look to this because of it I feel. It adds a fire to the stare in a complimentary way, that I think works big time. Only nit would be the way the tail feathers are showing as they look odd, or maybe one or two feathers are missing? Other than that, the comp works totally fantastic. Sweet work.

Paul

[Sid Garige]

Fantastic on your face image.

[Clement Francis]

Lovely one, the tiger on wings looks just deadly

[Stu Bowie]

Amazingly sharp Raymond, and eye contact at its best. Very well captured.

[subramanya_ck]

Oh man.... what an image. Love that killer look

[Raymond Barlow]

thanks to everyone for the cool comments.

[Kiran Poonacha]

the in coming pose make this great, also that BG adds very well.. congrats

just to complete it Ray, you might want to clone out that OOF stick on the top left. its not a major issue but will add is suppose.

[Danny Laredo]

Very powerful image, love the fact the owl is looking straight down the lens.

[Jim Crosswell]

The eye contact here is amazing Ray! I will have to get to one of these workshops.

[Tim Theisen]

Spectacular, Ray. Wish it was mine:).

Tim