Double Teamed Owl

[Jim Neiger]

Osceola County, Fl - 1D4, 500mm, hand held, 1/1000, F4, ISO 1250, manual exposure, ~60% of frame

[Randy Stout]

Jim:
Nice story telling here. Like the feathers knocked off to the left of the owl. Nice balance on the exposure to hold detail in the crows without blowing out the whites on the owl. Soft light helped of course.

Did you have to work any magic in post on the exposure?

Cheers

Randy

[Jim Neiger]

Jim:
Nice story telling here. Like the feathers knocked off to the left of the owl. Nice balance on the exposure to hold detail in the crows without blowing out the whites on the owl. Soft light helped of course.

Did you have to work any magic in post on the exposure?

Cheers

Randy

Randy,

Here is the original full frame with no processing other than neutral RAW conversion and resizing for web.

[Jeff Parker]

Cool capture. I love the look on the owl's face.

[Troy Lim]

How did you get them to come out?

[Gary Irwin]

Very cool capture Jim. Looks like you've applied a gaussian blurr to the background -- it's still pretty busy...I might try increasing it.

[Jim Neiger]

Very cool capture Jim. Looks like you've applied a gaussian blurr to the background -- it's still pretty busy...I might try increasing it.

Gary,

I did not blur the bg. I only applied NR to the bg.

[Jim Neiger]

How did you get them to come out?

I called him using an GHO call.