I made the trip to Kingsville Ontario like many others did and found the Great Gray Owl on the last day it was spotted. As it was perched on a hydro wire it occurred to me to stay back and wait for a flight shot instead of trying for a close-up of it on an undesirable perch. I'm curious what the consensus is on bird photos where the subject is on a plain sky background, like or dislike.
I don't usually do much post processing as my photoshop skills are lacking. I use mostly Canon DPP for image enhancement, in this case a little saturation and one round of sharpening. In Photoshop I cropped it by about 30 percent and then sized for posting.
Nice flight shot and good head turn. I am OK with a plain sky but do prefer a bit of cloud or different colors in sky as a BG,
Gail
I might selectively sharpen the head a bit
Mike, you have a great capture here to work with. Unfortunately, post processing is about 50% of the process. I wish it weren't true. I have taken the liberty of working on your picture. I did some shadow/highlight work, cropped a little tighter, overall sharpened and then resharpened the head just a tad. What do you think? Now that I am looking at it again, it's possible that I oversharpened the face.