just back from great workshop in South Texas with Alan Murphy. One afternoon at Laguna Seca Ranch he called in 2 Great Horned Owls to his setup. It was incredible to watch the two birds flying back and forth across the clearing - beautiful. He had set the perch up for 500mm, but at the time this bird came in, I was shooting with the 800mm. So the tip of his horns to the bottom of the lowest talon is 1 full frame, with the bottom part of the perch and the little top edge being pulled in from the next couple of shots in the sequence.
this was very slow shutter speed and high iso for me, but turned out pretty ok, I'm not sure about the post processing. Wonderful fun though!
1/100 sec at f/5.6, AV mode, ISO 1250, 800mm f/5.6 lens, 1DMk4, tripod
tried NIK tonal contrast on the bird and branch, NR on the background and a little smart sharpening of the final jpg. Realized at the end that i'd forgotten to do a little recovery in LR (a few blinkies in the white on his neck) so did last minute set of white point to tone that down.







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