Critique Style Requested: Standard
The photographer is looking for generalized feedback about the aesthetic and technical qualities of their image.
Description
All these motion blurred bird images posted lately got me thinking and I started in to look at some Barn Owl images from two nights ago when I stupidly went out with just a monopod well after sunset. A rather irate mother barn owl perched on a snag in the back yard and screamed at me even though I was hardly a threat to her babies (which were still in the box). Three of the images I’d taken (and thrown away) had a lot of motion blur and I resurrected them from the card that I luckily had not yet reformatted. I combined them to create this image.
Specific Feedback
Does it make you feel you’re being judged? Does it look like I was trying to make lemonade?
Technical Details
All images taken with Sony A1, FE 200-600 + 1.4 TC @ 840 mm, f/9, 1/10sec, iso 12,800. Preprocessed with DxO PureRaw 5 to reduce noise. Exported as layers to a singly file in PS. I moved and rotated the layers with respect to one another, and combined them with the “lighter” blending mode to make the owls and perches come through. Follow up with dodging, burning, and blurring to get the effect I wanted.
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