Great Horned Owl

[Alan Murphy]

Great Horned Owl

Workshop: Laguna Seca Ranch, South Texas

D3, 600, ISO 800, f5.6, 1/4000.

Another image of the Owl that provided great photo oportunitiess at our workshop.

[Morkel Erasmus]

Hey Alan
love that look you got, the side-angle on the wing and the sweet light
I am assuming the golden light basked the whole scene, hence the yellow "cast" (which does not bother me as much because of the time of day I'm assuming this was taken)?

[Allen Sparks]

Gorgeous....great light, wing position and head tilt.

[Sid Garige]

exceptional image Alan.

[Charles Glatzer]

You continue to amaze!!!! Perfection plus

See ya in FL

Chas

[Grace Scalzo]

This is one gorgeous image!

[Roger Clark]

Alan,

Beautiful bird and beautiful pose. Nice sharp image.

Everyone,
For more on my teaching phase angle on BPN, this image is an example of a very low phase angle, less than about 10 degrees. The low phase angle reduces shadows and as this examples shows, feather detail. For comparison see Alan's Northern Mockingbird image posted a couple of days ago:
http://www.birdphotographers.net/for...read.php/81975
There the phase angle was about 20 degrees and the image shows wonderful feather detail.

Roger

[Johan Kruger]

Its quite amazing, and you got him to look your way. Insane!

[Jim Neiger]

Killer light, pose, bg, and look. Well done, Buddy!

[Dumay de Boulle]

WOW!!! This is a spectacular image!