January Theme: Reworked Images

[Jonathan Ashton]

Canon 50D Canon 100-400 L IS @ 320mm, hand held, ISO 320 +0.67 1/500 sec f5.6
As you can tell from the tech data it was a captive bird, Snowy Owls don't tend to visit Wirral very much at all. The image was taken at a local Birds of Prey workshop. I am almost certainly correct if I say this is the first time a Snowy Owl has been photographed in snow in Wirral.
The image has been re-worked bearing in mind some comments that were made on my original post.
All C & C welcome.

[Cheryl Arena Molennor]

Nice work on the whites of the owl. I like his pose too. Is that it's prey directly under it's chest?

[arash_hazeghi]

nice pose and good display of environment, bird looks a bit soft to me.

[Randy Stout]

Jonathan:

It might be helpful to include a repost with the original image, so we know where you came from!

Thanks

Randy

[James Salywoda]

I love the stare great low angle and cool pose excellent shot.

[Jonathan Ashton]

Jonathan:

It might be helpful to include a repost with the original image, so we know where you came from!

Thanks

Randy

I agree, here is the original file:

[Randy Stout]

Jonathan:

Nice job replacing the rock! Did you have another frame to work with as source material for the grasses you cloned in where the rock had been? I didn't see a patch in this frame that matched your cloned in area.

If no extra frame, extra credit for creative cloning work!

Cheers

Randy

[Jonathan Ashton]

Jonathan:

Nice job replacing the rock! Did you have another frame to work with as source material for the grasses you cloned in where the rock had been? I didn't see a patch in this frame that matched your cloned in area.

If no extra frame, extra credit for creative cloning work!

Cheers

Randy

Randy no there was no alternative source, I cloned from the left hand side and transferred to the right trying to mix and match alignment so retain the degree of focus from one side to the other.

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Jon, a bit late here, but excellent exposure on the Snowy. Love the eye contact, although I may have lightened the eyes a touch more. Great work on getting rid of the rock, and yes, the trick to cloning is to ensure that the patterns are not repeated.