Juvenile Eastern Screech Owl
This is a shot I've been dying to get for quite a while, Eastern Screech Owls are my absolute favorite bird and to be able to see a juvenile was incredible. This was taken just after dusk so available light was pretty scarce. I shot this with my Canon 1DX, 600mm f/4 IS II wide open at 1/5sec and ISO 3200, manually focused via live view as my camera would have just hunted if I tried to use AF. Processed it in Camera Raw just to balance the exposure and then I brought it into Topaz Labs DeNoise AI and Sharpen AI (currently testing out those plugins, haven't quite gotten the hang of them yet but I'm pretty impressed). A few basic adjustment layers were applied too afterwards to brighten the bird a tiny bit and to darken the background slightly. Hope you enjoy it, thanks for looking!
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