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Okay, I've been around long enough now to withstand some punches. This was taken at the Bath & West show yesterday in a tented enclosure. Level & curves tweeked, some sharpening and vignette. Thoughts and opinions please - (be brutal, I can take it) Oh, and apologies Pops if its not an Eagle Owl
Super detail....................how close were you, those eyes are excellent. If its a crop i do like the way gone in tight.................works for me
regards
mike
Super detail....................how close were you, those eyes are excellent. If its a crop i do like the way gone in tight.................works for me
regards
mike
Thanks Ash and Mike for your comments. Mike, I have not cropped at all. Was using a 70-200mm at a focal length of 135mm. I was probably about 1.2m away as this is the minimum focal length on the lens (that's as good as the maths gets I'm afraid) The owl was perched on its handlers arm.
The owl looks wonderful but I feel it does not neet the heavy vignetting all round. I feel it looks unnatural and the shot survives very well without it.
Firstly Jo, I love this shot, I think some may not like the ear being cropped, but, I personally dont think it hurts, in fact, I like the extreme close up.
If I had to be uber critical, and nit picking, I would say the vignette is a little too intusive on the right hand side of the photograph, and possibly a little more depth of field to bring in the right eye to focus may have been desirable. But as I said, this would be nit picking, and as it stands I think it is a super shot!
Nice one!
(By the way, it looks like a Eurasian Eagle Owl, here is one in flight
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