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    Burrowing Owl Chick

    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.

    Burrowing Owl Chick

    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

    Burrowing Owl Chick

    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

    Burrowing Owl Chick

    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

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    Re: Burrowing Owl Chick

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

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    Re: Burrowing Owl Chick

    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.

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    Re: Burrowing Owl Chick

    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:

    Burrowing Owl Chick

    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)
    Last edited by rpcrowe; 6th May 2016 at 03:01 PM.

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    Re: Burrowing Owl Chick

    Nice shots.

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