The Indian Eagle Owl

[Kiran Poonacha]

Also called the Rock Eagle Owl, Very Difficult to spot them amongst the rock.

Spec: 1/2000, F 7.1, ISO 400

canon 40D + 500mm + 1.4TC

[Harshad Barve]

Kiranbhai
they camo themselves so good in rocks , Beautiful image with nice pose , eye contact and sharpness , If mine I may pull down saturation by few points ,
TFS

[Axel Hildebrandt]

Interesting setting, good eye contact, and angle. I might sharpen the bird a tad less and it could go a bit lighter for my taste.

[Kiran Poonacha]

Thank you Harshad Bhai and Axel Bhai for you valuable inputs, as suggested I toned down the sat, reduced the sharpness and light the image, hope its ok now.

thanks again,

Kiran

[Harshad Barve]

Looks spot on Bhai

[Allen Sparks]

I liked the original but like the repost even more. I think the colors work nicely to make this image a winner. nice one.

[Kim Rollins]

Thank you Harshad Bhai and Axel Bhai for you valuable inputs, as suggested I toned down the sat, reduced the sharpness and light the image, hope its ok now.

thanks again,

Kiran

Good suggestions and follow through. Re-post looks best to me.

[Daniel Cadieux]

I like the rocky habitat, very neat. Great view of the talon!! Good repost.

[Jim Crosswell]

Great image Kiran! I like the rock BG in this beautiful image.

[Raymond Barlow]

wonderful image, and beautiful creature., the repost looks great Bhai, congrats.

[Steve Canuel]

The original was good but your use of the suggested changes in the repost make it even better. A handsome and healthy looking subject.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Excellent, the eyes pop-up really nicely against the overall gray tone.
I like the bird very much.

[Juan Aragonés]

Very difficult to photograph in Spain too Kiran. The angle and softness of light are very good and I like the balance between the textures of the feathers and granite rocks. Owls´s stare is fantastic. Composition is OK but this is one of those kind of images that I am sure would also work very, very well in landscape format with a lot of room at the left of the bird to show more of those interesting granite textures. :)

[paul leverington]

Kiran--This owl is a fantstic subject! Looks like our great horned owl combined with our long eared. A beautiful classic renditional shot. Both posted versions I feel lack enough contast in the rock surface--were you going for differential contrast between the bird and rock for separation by any chance? Or maybe you only selectively sharpened the bird and not the rocks? I agree with the saturation and sharpening tweaks in the second post--looks more natural this way. Also I think Juan made a great observation about an alternate horizontal comp where the rocks play a greater part in it. Super shot of a fantastic bird! I wish it were mine...

Paul

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Killer bird!

Love how it looked at your lens. Just look at those talons! Thanks a lot for sharing.:D