PB Burrowing Owl
During the Birding & Photography Festival in St. Augustine this year we had the opportunity to have access to some captive rehab birds of prey. The burrowing owls were especially cute. I used PB and Topaz Clean on this little guy.
Thanks for looking. Comments and suggestions appreciated.
"It is only with the heart that one can see rightly" - The Little Prince
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Beautifully framed, Cheryl. Nicely processed, with nice neutral BG and engaging pose. Love the Owls................I'm thinking the left eye could use a catch light. Otherwise, very well done.
Hi Cheryl, lovely owl. Agree with Jay on the catch-light for the left eye and maybe a touch of additional sharpening on that eye also as it looks a little softer than the right eye. Nice work with PB!
Cheryl, This is lovely, I like the pose and filtering very much. The spotlight behind suggests directional light and a catchlight in the left eye would seem unnatural to me.
Cheryl, this is a really nice base image...I hesitate to make suggestions on this one because mine are more a matter of personal preference...it's always a fine line between suggesting what might make the image better and what you would do with the image personally...does that make sense? At any rate, I'm wading in......I would have like to have seen just a touch more detail brought back in to the feathers...and owls have such intense eyes that I would have been tempted to use the saturation brush to bring out a little more color to the yellow of the eyes as well. BUT...having said that...it would be a very different interpretation, and your image stands on its own merit...so I'm just thinking out loud on this one!
The processing fits the subject very well on this one.
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