Canon R5 /100-500 - Snowy Owl pics shot yesterday (11/14/20): Yesterday morning went on my photo expedition. Lucky to find this snowy on the sand dunes near the coastline. Half the...

venkatesh_eng

Yesterday morning went on my photo expedition. Lucky to find this snowy on the sand dunes near the coastline. Half the time the snowy sleeps and the moment it opens its yellow eyes, the owl paparrazi (including me) shoots away a million clicks ! All pictures handheld, 2nd and 3rd pictures were cropped.

Location: Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich, MA.

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CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Nice find! Consider a 16:9 crop to put more focus on the bird and less open space in the unfocused sand. The narrow landscape crop brings the bird 'closer' to the viewer too.

venkatesh_eng

CHG_CANON wrote:

Nice find! Consider a 16:9 crop to put more focus on the bird and less open space in the unfocused sand. The narrow landscape crop brings the bird 'closer' to the viewer too.

Thank you Paul. Good suggestion. I will definitely do a 16:9 crop.

frankraney Loc: Clovis, Ca.

venkatesh_eng wrote:

Yesterday morning went on my photo expedition. Lucky to find this snowy on the sand dunes near the coastline. Half the time the snowy sleeps and the moment it opens its yellow eyes, the owl paparrazi (including me) shoots away a million clicks ! All pictures handheld, 2nd and 3rd pictures were cropped.

Location: Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich, MA.

Great photos. Downloads are excellent. Eyes are sharp in dl.

Ourspolair

Great captures -I concur with the 16:9 cropping. On my monitor, it looks as though you could improve the detail in the owl's face by reducing the highlights/whites to bring out the feather structure. Please stay well and keep on sharing your voyage with the R5.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Fine catch!!

Fred Harwood Loc: Sheffield, Mass.

venkatesh_eng wrote:

Yesterday morning went on my photo expedition. Lucky to find this snowy on the sand dunes near the coastline. Half the time the snowy sleeps and the moment it opens its yellow eyes, the owl paparrazi (including me) shoots away a million clicks ! All pictures handheld, 2nd and 3rd pictures were cropped.

Location: Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich, MA.

A great catch, for sure. We've had but one in many years in southwest Mass.

May I suggest further processing? I can post an example, if you would permit.

L-Fox

venkatesh_eng wrote:

Yesterday morning went on my photo expedition. Lucky to find this snowy on the sand dunes near the coastline. Half the time the snowy sleeps and the moment it opens its yellow eyes, the owl paparrazi (including me) shoots away a million clicks ! All pictures handheld, 2nd and 3rd pictures were cropped.

Location: Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich, MA.

venkatesh_eng

Fred Harwood wrote:

A great catch, for sure. We've had but one in many years in southwest Mass.

May I suggest further processing? I can post an example, if you would permit.

Thank you Fred. Feel free please go ahead with post process most welcome.

Fred Harwood Loc: Sheffield, Mass.

venkatesh_eng wrote:

Thank you Fred. Feel free please go ahead with post process most welcome.

Here's a quick PProc on the second photo of the snowy, to bring out more detail in the very white facial feathers and to give a bit more contrast overall. Also cropped to 14 x 8 @ 300 ppi to emphasize the bird and grasses.

A 14 x 8 ratio gives almost a HDTV ratio,similar to the 16 x 9 suggestion earlier, a better fit to most screens.

Others may prefer a different PProc effort.

Do you shoot raw and/or PProcess?

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CHG_CANON Loc: the Windy City

Fred Harwood wrote:

Here's a quick PProc on the second photo of the snowy, to bring out more detail in the very white facial feathers and to give a bit more contrast overall. Also cropped to 14 x 8 @ 300 ppi to emphasize the bird and grasses.

A 14 x 8 ratio gives almost a HDTV ratio,similar to the 16 x 9 suggestion earlier, a better fit to most screens.

Others may prefer a different PProc effort.

Do you shoot raw and/or PProcess?

Fred, nice work!

Venkatesh, from the original RAW, you can probably recover even more detail in the white feathers than this re-processed JPEG.

DaveO Loc: Northeast CT

Fred Harwood wrote:

Here's a quick PProc on the second photo of the snowy, to bring out more detail in the very white facial feathers and to give a bit more contrast overall. Also cropped to 14 x 8 @ 300 ppi to emphasize the bird and grasses.

A 14 x 8 ratio gives almost a HDTV ratio,similar to the 16 x 9 suggestion earlier, a better fit to most screens.

Others may prefer a different PProc effort.

Do you shoot raw and/or PProcess?

Fine job! Good stuff for our forum!

venkatesh_eng

Fred Harwood wrote:

Here's a quick PProc on the second photo of the snowy, to bring out more detail in the very white facial feathers and to give a bit more contrast overall. Also cropped to 14 x 8 @ 300 ppi to emphasize the bird and grasses.

A 14 x 8 ratio gives almost a HDTV ratio,similar to the 16 x 9 suggestion earlier, a better fit to most screens.

Others may prefer a different PProc effort.

Do you shoot raw and/or PProcess?

Wow ! that really has brought out the details and contrast is much improved. I like it. Thank you very much Fred. I will try PProcessing the raw file.

venkatesh_eng

CHG_CANON wrote:

Fred, nice work!

Venkatesh, from the original RAW, you can probably recover even more detail in the white feathers than this re-processed JPEG.

Yes i am going to try to recover as much details from the RAW. Thank you

J-SPEIGHT Loc: Akron, Ohio

venkatesh_eng wrote:

Yesterday morning went on my photo expedition. Lucky to find this snowy on the sand dunes near the coastline. Half the time the snowy sleeps and the moment it opens its yellow eyes, the owl paparrazi (including me) shoots away a million clicks ! All pictures handheld, 2nd and 3rd pictures were cropped.

Location: Sandy Point State Reservation, Ipswich, MA.