***Snowy in flight with a special look***

[Yves Guillot]

Spring is coming here but I still am working on my last february photos of snowy.

Canon EOS 7D Canon IS 600 mm 1:4,0 - 1/2500s f/4.0 iso800 Full frame

C&C : thanks!

[Ryan Schain]

I'm not a huge fan of the head angle and the fact that we can only see one eye. The image also appears to have a cyan cast to it. I do however, like the background and positioning of the bird in the frame.

[Dave Leroy]

Peek a boo look. A unique pose and placement in frame and something a bit different. Seeing both eyes would have been a big plus but this is still a very nice photo. Owl is nice and sharp and not sure what to say about the colors except that it looks good.

[RakeshDhareshwar]

Nice HA to get that naughty peek a boo action here . The image has a very strong colour cast though .

[gail bisson]

Very nice peek a boo look. I like the dangling, furry feet and your unusual composition. The strong blue cast needs to be addressed. Would love to see a repost,
Gail

[Randy Stout]

Yves:

I like the peek a boo pose, one eye works ok for me with this pose.

Yes, very cool colors/cast, but it makes me feel cold, so I am ok with it.

Cheers

Randy

[Frank Schauf]

Nice composition and excellent expsoure control and sharpness.

[Yves Guillot]

If anyone has a methiod to correct the color cast (that I do not really see on my screen by the way), please let me know. I do have CS5.

[Marina Scarr]

A unique capture you have here, Yves. It does have a blueish cast, but I agree that it works b/c it gives you the feeling of the cold. I wish the owl weren't quite so squeezed into the corner. I would just give him a little bit more room up there. I really like the BG here and all the layers or blue. Wish I could help you with colors casts, but it's not my forte. I would say try in RAW to move the white balance tool to the right to make it a little warmer or you can try in PS to decrease the blues in saturation.

[Ron Sprunger]

Hey, I think the peek-a-boo works great -- nice shot! To correct color cast in PS5, just bring up a color balance adjustment layer and move the cyan a touch toward red, and perhaps the blue a touch toward yellow. But I'm not sure that's a good thing to do. As commented above, the blue looks cold and may add to the image. Here's a RP +10 red and -10 blue (don't think you'd need that much working with the raw).

[Yves Guillot]

Thanks Ron and Marina for your comments and suggestions for the correction of the blue cast. And thanks also to all of you who took the time to comment my photo. It is much appreciated!

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

HI, I like this comp. a lot. nice pose as well. the empty space works well due to the colors. Here's my shot at color corrected. in photoshop elements I used the 'remove color cast' option and clicked at the spot on the far wing extended primaries.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Note that I have tried to maintain the cool feel.

[Yves Guillot]

Thanks Kaustubh for your repost. What I can see is that it contains a bit less magenta than the previous repost by Ron. I believe that the cool or cold feel will always be there because of the blue sky in the BG. Thank you for your appreciation of my photo!