Meet "Twig"

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• ldsouza (1369)
• [2006-03-19 22:12]
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Beautiful shot!!! Why did you cut off the feet in the pic? Would have been nice to have seen the entire bird. I went for an Owl Prowl and tried to look for this little guy ... they are almost impossible to see in the wild ... needless to say, I did not see him :(
Congratulations!! Beautiful shot, wonderful sharpness, hue + sat .. only wish we could see the entire bird.
TFS,
Liezel

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• marhowie (486)
• [2006-03-19 22:20]

Hi Scott,
You've done an excellent job with this. Very sharp detail and the eyes are amazing..
Perfect light & color. Very well done mf.

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• goutham_ramesh (12237)
• [2006-03-19 22:23]
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Hi,
Excellent potrait and a very useful note, f5.6 was it a choice, i think you could have used f8/f11 you would have got better DOF.

Great Composition, colors, and very good POV
TFS
Goutham R

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• AnimalExplorer (1997)
• [2006-03-19 22:49]

Excellent whooty owl! Makes a perfect portrait shot with a very nice POV. Awesome Scott. :)

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• Photobones (155)
• [2006-03-19 23:34]

Twig is a hoot! Very cute shot in spite of the missing feet... toes are just SO unglamorous anyway.! Excellent technicals as many to follow are sure to remind you!

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• loot (11276)
• [2006-03-19 23:55]
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Hi Scott
Bring them on... I mean the raptor shoots.
Your photo is very good. The sharp details really bring out the textures and the colours on its feathers. And those eyes... staring straight at you... piercing and penetrating. Lovely stuff. Good DOF & BG too.
Very well done and TFS.
Regards
Loot

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• eleana (2247)
• [2006-03-20 0:07]

Wow, Scott!
What an eyes! What a colours! Bravo! Looking like portrait in studio! :-)
Best wishes,
Elena

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• Zeno (10867)
• [2006-03-20 2:22]

Hi Scott,


This owl really looks intelligent. Very sharp details, great colors and nice and wonderful background. That's were it's all about!
TFS.

Zeno.

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• Jannie (1227)
• [2006-03-20 2:38]

Excellent DOF and detail. Very good POV and beautiful eyes. It's a shame you had to cut off the feet becuase of the tethers. Maybe you can try to do a close crop just on the face.

Well done

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• dew77 (13270)
• [2006-03-20 2:39]

Hello Scott!
Magnificent portrait.Details are razorsharp and crisp clear.POV,details,simple BG and eye contact are excellent.TFS...:-)

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• manyee (23770)
• [2006-03-20 3:06]

Hi Scott,
An amazingly sharp capture of this screech owl.
Great color contrast within the feathers.
Very pale eyes for an owl... interesting.
Thank you for sharing your beautiful images, and for helping me this past year, my friend. : )

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• ALIRIZA (781)
• [2006-03-20 3:48]

Hi Scott ,
Excellent and amazing portrait. I like clear details, nice colours, sharpness and framing a lot. Congratulations...
Well done.
Ali Rıza

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• ddg (5507)
• [2006-03-20 4:04]

Bonjour Scott, splendid ce portrait de "chouette". Leur regard est toujours fabuleux!! Super piqué et belle couleurs, TFS, Didier.

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• aido (4046)
• [2006-03-20 4:06]

Hi Scott,
Excellent shot, superb eye detail! Colours are good, my only nit would be that the DOF is a little shallow. I'm noticing this in peoples work at the moment because it's something I'm working on myself!
Regards
Adrian

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• marjan (2685)
• [2006-03-20 4:11]

Hi Scott, nice and celare photo. good seeing details and good POV.
Marjan

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• SkyF (8073)
• [2006-03-20 7:17]

Hi Scott,
Very nice shot, excellent sharpness. The texture of the feathers and color are wonderfully detailed. Very nice eye contact excellent POV.
TFS...Sky

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• tinman (2663)
• [2006-03-20 8:13]

Beautiful shot and so sharp - great equipment as well I see. Well done

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• maratony (80)
• [2006-03-20 8:25]

Grande scatto. Messa a fuoco sugli occhi, buoni dettagli.
Bravo. Complimenti

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• wkshelton (5492)
• [2006-03-20 9:02]

Great Portrait scott,
Very nice colors, BG, details, Great capture and composed, Framing just excellent, TFS Kyle

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• saguzar (7202)
• [2006-03-20 9:19]
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Hi Scott,
Nice image, I love the great details, as always you does. Good colors and light...but... you have cutting of the feet, It´s a pity.perhaps you had any reason.
regards
Hernán

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• ellis49 (2254)
• [2006-03-20 10:40]

Hi Scott,
a great portrait of a owl. The most important with portait of owls are the intensive eyes and look, you have done a great work to get them sharp.
Well composed, good POV and nice colours.
Excellent work, my friend.

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• carper (8439)
• [2006-03-20 11:39]

it's indeed a shame that the feet are missing otherwise it was a world shot. The pov is fantastic with good details and the dof is good too. very good photo anyway. good job Scot

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• PerR (99)
• [2006-03-20 13:02]

Hello Scott.
Beautiful. Very sharp, great colour and light. And the eyes.... Very well done.
Regards
Per

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• Comandante (1408)
• [2006-03-20 13:14]

Hello Scott!
Amazing portrait.Colors,sharpness,details and framing are
excellent.Thanks for sharing.

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• wishnugaruda (19365)
• [2006-03-20 14:15]

Hi Scott,
so amazing eyes, it's a beautiful bird, excellent shot, thanks
Sabine - wishnugaruda

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• ScottHale (420)
• [2006-03-20 16:50]

Scott,
Wow....fantastic. This was the cutest little owl I have ever seen. In my opinion, it was the coolest bird there. I can't find a flaw in this picture. I noticed someone said they would have liked to have seen the entire bird but who likes to see tethers? This thing was so tiny it was unbelieveable. I wonder if we could have had some sort of way to include "scale" in our shots. I shot a few of "twigy" that turned out well but not nearly as good as this. Nice "catch light", great OOF BG, awesome use of the the dim light you had available, good texture and composition - I like that he's slightly off centered. Good job, wonderful post, it put a smile on my face.
Bring on the raptors pal!
Scott

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• cecilia (4630)
• [2006-03-20 21:50]

Wow! absolutely stunning,with colour and detail...
Well done..

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• CTP (2726)
• [2006-03-20 22:22]

Hi Scott,
Excellent Owl portrait my friend:)
His eye details are impressive.
Great pov,colors,sharpness,focus,note and blurred bg.Well Done.TFS
Chris

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• zeca (2887)
• [2006-03-20 22:42]

Wonderful shot, Scott! Nice sharpness and colours! I like it so much!
Regards!
Zeca

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• wallhalla15 (13829)
• [2006-03-21 5:53]

Excellent portrait shot Scott. Great sharpness, details and very nice colours and lighting too. Very good POV and DOF, well captured. This is a great composition. Thank you for sharing with us.
Gr.
Heinz

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• ramthakur (56953)
• [2006-03-21 11:14]

Mr "Twig" stares me in the eye and I like it, Scott. Why did you hide its talons, or is it claws?
A superb image, perfect in every respect. So flood us with some more and thanks for sharing.
Sorry, will get get back to give you points later.

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• thistle (9282)
• [2006-03-21 11:26]

Hello Scott,
Very good shot. Well done on framing here. Picture has good lighting and some nice details too. The DOF however seems to be a little shallow and even eyes aren't entirely in focus.
Anyway, well done on this one!

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• liquidsunshine (5437)
• [2006-03-21 17:10]

Great capture Scott,
Good clear and sharp detail. Good colours, composition and exposure.
Thanks for posting, have a great week.

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• EOSF1 (23955)
• [2006-03-21 21:41]

Excellent bird shot, crisp and clear. Well composed, good note. Thanks Scott.

Mario

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• RII (2862)
• [2006-03-22 2:18]

Hi Scott
Great owl portrait, excellent close up, very nice composition color and details, the eyes is wonderful.

Saludos...RICARDO.

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• TPAKT (89)
• [2006-03-22 11:30]

Privet Scott.
The big eyes penetrates through. Precise details, good and quiet colors. The present portrait.

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• SunToucher (11162)
• [2006-03-22 14:46]

Hi Scott,
Thanks for introducing Twig to us. What a great and sharp photo. The colors and light are excellent. I realy like the big bright eyes. Can't wait to see your raptor collection.
TFS,
Niek

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• chiliu (6526)
• [2006-03-22 16:02]

Hi Scott,
Brilliant capture!
Very sharp image, perfect exposure and focus,
incredible detail in the eyes, excellent POV and DOF.
Well done and thanks for sharing!

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• PDP (11769)
• [2006-03-24 20:03]

Hi Scott, good shot. Great looking owl and it's a good composition, I love his stare. Well done.

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• livios (16942)
• [2006-03-25 14:41]

Scott, another great image.

Excellent eye contact, colors and lighting. I enjoy the soft bg too.

Great note, great job.

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• coasties (28054)
• [2006-04-02 6:57]

Hi Scott

Here we do have an wise looking Owl. Love the eye contact. Crisp, clear and sharp details. Nice crop to the shot too. Great BG! :-)

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• Dando (3084)
• [2006-04-12 9:01]

Hi Scott, another cracking shot from your birds of prey series. Detail, colours, exposure etc. all spot on. Good one my friend and TFS.
Dean.

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• touristdidi (2490)
• [2006-05-06 10:49]

So cute and perfect! Wonderful feathers!

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• HELO (352)
• [2006-06-07 8:01]

hi Scott
très très belle photo
très bons details et très belles couleurs
cette photo est vraiment magnifique
et l'arrière plan est très bien fait (il est bien flou).
heloise

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• pablominto (14563)
• [2007-10-09 10:26]

Hello Scott,
A great portrait, where the intense stare is so well captured!
Great details in the plumage, and the bird stands out well on the non-intrusive background...
A fine composition with good natural colours!
Greetings,
Pablo -