Burrowing Owl Chick

[jprzybyla]

Dottie and I got back yesterday from our annual pilgrimage to southwest Florida to photograph the Burrowing Owls. Here are a couple images of the chicks.



Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/1000 F/8 Matrix Metering +1 EV ISO 1400 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC
Cropped for composition and presentation



Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/1000 F/8 Matrix Metering +1 EV ISO 1250 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC
Cropped for composition and presentation



Nikon D7000
Nikon 80-400mm F/4.5-5.6 VRII AF-S ED shot at 400mm (600mm FFE)
1/1000 F/8 Matrix Metering +1 EV ISO 1600 AWB
Post processed in Lightroom CC and Photoshop CC
Cropped for composition and presentation

[Ziggy]

Very nice Joe. Really like the pose in #2.

[NorthernFocus]

Nicely captured, Joe. That's a bucket list species for me. The images seem a bit washed out and cool but I'm not currently viewing on a calibrated machine.

[rpcrowe]

I like these shots but, I have to agree with Dan regarding them being a bit washed out.

I used NIK Viveza and globally increased the structure, and contrast and globally reduced the brightness a small bit. This is the result:



I like NIK software but, I use three plug-ins primarily:

Viveza on almost all my images... most of my images benefit from increased structure to one degree or another I also like the control point system

RAW Pre-Sharpener on all my images... I always shoot RAW (no in-camera or Adobe Camera RAW sharpening applied)

Dfine on images that need noise control... If I need noise control that is the first slider I use (no noise control in-camera or in ACR)

[Shadowman]

Nice shots.