barn owl in flight
Jul, 2017Views
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Location
I was out with friends at a Round Table event, this was in the Oxfordshire countryside at a caravan, camping and wildlife centre.Time
this was in the late afternoon about 8pm in the summerLighting
all natural light, the sun was low so good contrastEquipment
Taken with a Nikon D7100, an 80-400mm lens, no flash, and supported on a monopodInspiration
I love birds and the chance to catch one in take-off was too good to pass up. This is a hand-reared owl so he flew across to his trainer's hand.Editing
added a bit of clarity and darkened the green a little to fade out the backgroundIn my camera bag
I use mostly prime lenses, 50 and 35mm but I also have 2x longer zooms for wildlife and sports, one is a bottom of the range 70-300mm which I bought for less than £100 years' ago. its lasted very well and have survived several camera body upgrades, easy to carry and I've captured some great images with it (it does create a bit of extra work in post to strip out chromatic abberation though) The 80-400mm I used here is a decent quality F4-5.6 (it's heavy!) for a lens like this you need a tripod (mine converts into a monopod)Feedback
The eye's are all important! about the only part of this image that is fully in focus is the face of the owl, I set the focus to just in front of the perch, the owl therefore moved into the focus point and the nice blurry wing effect was a bit of a bonus. My top tip is to keep trying!
