Barred Owl (Captive)

This is really excellent all around. It just lacks a bit of life in the eyes to make it pop. The DOF and bg colors are well done.

The contemplative pose really grabs me. I would like to see some sparkle in the eyes but this is excellent as is.

The eyes have been mentioned. The only thing needed to make this really pop.

Dear Laura, took the liberty to play with your image, I am hoping that you don't mind!!, As presented there is a heavy reddish cast to it and no catchlite, First I fixed the cast problem by using levels and finding the white point, not perfect but a great improvement and the cast is gone, second, I went to work on the eye, copy and paste the eye on top of the original image, adjusted curves to bring about as much detail as possible, I had to do this twice, eventually some detail came out, I was able to determined a very faint catchlite and I proceeded to enhance the same, darkened the center of the eye to give it reference , flattened the image and Presto!!! , It is in my view a tad better, The pensive mood is all yours and very well taken!!! Congrats!!!

Laura, Alex the magician has certainly improved your pensive image.

Jim

Dear Laura, took the liberty to play with your image, I am hoping that you don't mind!!, As presented there is a heavy reddish cast to it

Hi Alex. I don't mind at all! I seem to be on the red side a lot lately... Maybe time to recalibrate my monitor...

The color corrected version looks so much better. Thanks for your time.

Color corrected version looks good -- image from the start was already a winner.

Laura and Alex: Great work

Alan Murphy wrote:Laura and Alex: Great work

As is frequently the case, I agree with Alan 100%.

Nice second repost, I too was thinking his eyes looked lifeless. Nice picture.

Laura
I love the look this one has.....and Alex sure brought out the best in what you shot.

Nice portrait of a great bird - looks a bit dark and the eyes don't have any life in them. I think this could easily be improved a lot with a photo program - I see Alex has done that already!

With your shots and Alex's ps skills, this is a real winner.

The new photo team, Laura and Alex have made this nice image into an excellent image.

Laura,

This is a very nice shot to start with. Alex made it even better. Excellent work.

Very nice portrait.

Latafat

Laura -

Great job by you and Alex!


- Paul

Maybe I need to send one of my Sandhills to Alex, it needs a little bit of the beak to finish the image.

Both of you did great work. Excellent image.

Great work Laura! Alex too.