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Dubes Silver Member Nikonian since 16th Jun 2007Thu 14-Mar-13 11:25 PM
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"Eastern Screech-owl - Red morph"


Mississauga, CA
          

Managed to find the red morph Eastern Screech-owl this past Sunday - had to wait for an hour & a half for him to pop up out of his hole (thought I may have been waiting in in the wrong spot, but lots of car tracks and foot prints in area). Also stopped over today and he was sitting waiting and ready this time.

The first 2 are from today, bright sunshine, fairly harsh light around 1:00 pm.
Both shots D300 +600mm f/4 VR + 1.4TC


ISO200, f/8, 1/800sec





ISO200, f/8, 1/640sec





This image was taken this past Sunday at around noon, sun was not as harsh. Also used my 2xTCIII. I haven't used the 2xTC too often as I've found it a bit soft - but I'll let you be the judge, maybe some fine auto-focus tuning, long lens technique improvement (shooting at 1200mm) or PP adjustment??.

ISO200, f/8, 1/640sec





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Jim Pearce Silver Member Nikonian since 02nd Mar 2004Fri 15-Mar-13 12:18 AM
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#1. "RE: Eastern Screech-owl - Red morph"
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Grimsby, CA
          

I would try f9, f10 & f11 Richard. The highlight on the eye definitely looks diffuse to me (coma from the TC?). In theory f10 is the extinction resolution - the point at which you should treat the system as diffraction limited.

Jim

  
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Dubes Silver Member Nikonian since 16th Jun 2007Fri 15-Mar-13 01:21 AM
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#3. "RE: Eastern Screech-owl - Red morph"
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 Fri 15-Mar-13 07:01 PM by Dubes

Mississauga, CA
          

Thanks Jim, I'll give that a try and stop down some more. Coma? I've never heard that term before in photography, will have to look up.

<Edit> - Looked up coma as it applied to lenses, had no idea that was a type of aberration as well. The following link made for some interesting readig: http://www.lensrentals.com/blog/2010/10/the-seven-deadly-aberrations

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cockers Silver Member Nikonian since 25th May 2006Fri 15-Mar-13 01:05 AM
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Plover, US
          

Beauties Richard!

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Dubes Silver Member Nikonian since 16th Jun 2007Fri 15-Mar-13 01:21 AM
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Mississauga, CA
          

Hi Al, and thanks so much.

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Brian_S Registered since 28th Jan 2011Fri 15-Mar-13 01:23 AM
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Thunder Bay, CA
          

great shots Richard, you guys in southern ontario are getting a nice variety of owls

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Dubes Silver Member Nikonian since 16th Jun 2007Fri 15-Mar-13 07:03 PM
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#6. "RE: Eastern Screech-owl - Red morph"
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 Fri 15-Mar-13 10:43 PM by Dubes

Mississauga, CA
          

Thanks Brian,, these owls are the same ones as Jim Pearce has been posting. Thanks to him, I've been able to locate them.

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af4nc Gold Member Nikonian since 07th Jul 2007Sat 16-Mar-13 12:35 PM
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Yardley, US
          

Great capture. I love owls

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Dubes Silver Member Nikonian since 16th Jun 2007Sun 17-Mar-13 09:54 PM
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#8. "RE: Eastern Screech-owl - Red morph"
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 Sun 17-Mar-13 10:02 PM by Dubes

Mississauga, CA
          

Thanks Tom, not always a common sight.

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slopoki1 Silver Member Nikonian since 13th Jun 2012Wed 20-Mar-13 11:39 PM
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#9. "RE: Eastern Screech-owl - Red morph"
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Homestead, US
          

Very, very nice Richard.
Love the color.
Wish I had them down here.
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massulo Gold Member Nikonian since 07th May 2002Thu 21-Mar-13 12:59 AM
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#10. "RE: Eastern Screech-owl - Red morph"
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Love the teddy bear look of #1 well done as usual....



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