Canon &d Canon 500mm L IS & Canon 1.4TC, Tripod ISO 200 1/250 sec f7.1
I have been to this site several times over the last week, desperately hoping to get a clear image... but no luck yet. Hhopefully soon I will get an image with both chicks having their eyes open. Meantime I decided I just had to share this one, I have managed one with the adult at the nest but she was partly obscuring the chicks... fingers crossed I will get a better one, meantime I would appreciate any comments. This is full frame I did consider cropping but I decided which ever way I did it well it is still a bit of a pig's ear from a compositional point of view!!
Tough shot for sure, not sure how to improve it, umtil those "sleepy" heads change their position a bit! Natural habitat fro sure. Thks for sharing.. stay on it, sooner or later, they give you your shot!
Don
A tough view for sure. I might be tempted to tone down the green area in front even further and to lower the brightness of the wood to the the left of the frame, to match the upright piece on the right. Might help draw our eye into the birds more. Thought about a bit of a crop from the top, but when tried, not a big improvement.
Great find but definitely a tough situation for photographing. I find the OOF foreground elements distracting but looks like they are part of the tree so impossible to avoid. Might work better if they were sharp but not sure you can get that much DOF.
Just a suggestion as not really sure that it would work.
Can you crop close to the owl chicks (top, bottom, and left side) and then darken and vignette the outside so that the focus is close and only on the chicks?
Again, not sure if it would work.
Deb
Beautiful faces.
Last edited by Deborah Hanson; 05-05-2010 at 07:36 AM.
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I need to just get any owl image, and you manage to capture chicks. you have framed them nicely, and if anything, I would crop from the bottom to eliminate the green branch.
Thanks for the feedback everyone, I had already tried the suggestions but thanks anyway, maybe I will get a better shot when the chicks venture forward a little and wing-stretch - here's hoping!
Tawny Owl chicks
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