Barn owl

[Lorant Voros]

The end of another rainy day. The sun wasn't gone yet and managed to get a chance with this barn owl. It flew by 2 m from us. Veracruz, Mexico with my friend Manuel Grosselet.

1DMK IV
500MM +1.4TC
ISO1600
f: 5.6
1/160
Handheld

[Juan Carlos Vindas]

Very nice bird, like the crop you made here. The soft green BG and sharp face makes this one for me! take care!

[PhilCook]

I have my one and only image of this species almost the same as this...so I have to say it's great hehehe. Like the sense of movement with the wing tips blurred and complimentary backdrop

[christopher galeski]

nice image,like the head on shot,nice BG.

[arash_hazeghi]

you did well given the condition. I like the wing blur and BG! would sharpen the face a tad more

[Chris Martinez]

Even the upper portion of the BG helps suggest swift movement of the owl(kinda has a time warp look to it).

Looks to have a magenta colour cast.

[Richard Unsworth]

I like this a lot, impressed with HH at 1/160, presume you used servo AI, single spot AF or expanded CP envious you can use such high ISO with the mkiv

[gail bisson]

Amazing that you got the head sharp at 1/160.
I like the comp.
There is a slight magenta cast to the image-easy to fix!
Gail

[Ofer Levy]

I like this! The pano works well.

[Rachel Hollander]

Pano works well. Good suggestions above.

TFS,
Rachel

[Randy Stout]

Lorant:

Perfect crop, good BG, nice display of that impressive wingspan. Yes to a smidge of sharpening on head, but the image is very effective.

Cheers

Randy

[Stu Bowie]

Hi Lorant, Great head on with eye contact, and I like how the detail in the BG follows the line of the owl's wings.

[Daniel Cadieux]

Awesome!! Great head-on flight and I love the blurred primaries. Good comp. I too see a slight magenta cast. Well done Lorant!

P.S. Got your e-mail...

[Kiran Poonacha]

Great focus and the blur adds superbly... cheers brother.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Blur is very cool here. Head a little soft as expected but I am also thinking( like Arash) that some USM there will improve this. great Bg and comp.