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Description
I have a pal that’s been seeing a rare great gray owl so he took me out where he’s been seeing it and, lo and behold, there it was. It let us photograph it on two different perches for over a half hour! I had to make some “lip-squeaking” to get it to look at me. This is one of the 56 “keepers” that I got. It was late evening diffused light. Unforgettable.
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Cropping? Anything?
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Z9, 180-600 lens, Nikon 1.4 TC, Monopod, cropped to 4823 x 6157, 1/500th, f 8.5, ISO 25600, 500mm.
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Gorgeous, Dave. It is a rare treat to see one of these and you caught it on a great perch. the head on look is always a winner with this species. The only thing I can see that you might consider doing is de-emphasizing the out of focus branches to the left of the owl. they’re just sufficiently defined to grab my eye a bit. Either a bit more blur or some light cloning would do the trick nicely.
Excellent capture Dave. Suggested edits would be to either clone out or crop out the dark spot midway up the RH edge and adjust the WB to reduce the cyan cast. Pose and perch are awesome. Congrats on getting this one…Jim
What a beautiful creature! As someone above said, bucket list species.
What an amazing experience you had with this owl.
I think it’s fine the way it is, but maybe just a touch of background darkening to deemphasize the branches on the left, and get it to match the darkness of the upper right hand corner. But such nice light on the owl.
Very nice.
Looks A+ to me! I would have been tempted to pull back a bit to show more of the environment the owl was in…but that’s a tough call on a show stopper like a Great Gray!
