Challenge:Wildlife IV (Advanced Editing VII) Camera:Olympus E-10 Location: WildlIfe Sanctuary, Lone Elk Park, St. Louis CO. Date: Oct 19, 2008 Aperture: F2.4 ISO: 160 Shutter: 1/125 Galleries:Animals Date Uploaded: Oct 19, 2008
I did not do any advanced editing on this photo, this is my first entry. I did crop the photo. I intentionally left the eyes red as I thought it gave the owl a more demonic appearance, with the "stern" look on his face (from a mouse's perspective). The owl's feathers almost look painted (brush stroked), below his neck, which I though brought your focus up to his face and then to his expression.
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Great expression but those red reflections are off-putting to me. Personally, I always fix them with a red-eye tool or desaturation or something to get them to look natural.
Heh!! He certainly seems to be rather stern, doesn't he? (Or she. I'm clueless as to owl genders.) Not sure why the eyes are red - flash, maybe? - but that could be fixed in post processing to make them a bit darker.
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