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Originally Posted by thenunsofgaborone
You can always use the flash to light the subject when the light is behind it, this will also light the eye making it look more alive. You can also use the spot metering on you camera so that it looks at exposing the subject rather than image as a whole.
There seems to be some severe colour fringing (purpley and green colour) on the branches behind this might something caused by the lens. You can remove or reduce this in Photoshop or similar application.
What settings did you use on your camera? There isn't any EXIF data here.
Not a bad job though and as for getting close to birds you'll have to practise your Ninja techniques even with a big lens (Perhaps the Sigma 50-500mm lens might be a more reasonably priced start).
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Originally Posted by Chip
gunsofnabarone makes a great point about using flash. It is effective in this type of situation, and not too difficult to learn. Birds don't seem to mind (for some reason) as long as you aren't right on top of them.
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Thanks for the suggestions.
I believe spot metering could have helped me here. In this situation, I am unsure if (at least my camera in-built) flash could have helped, as the owl was quite far off. Well, I think I'll have to go there again to try using my flash on the owl. Given that this bird was blind when I took its shots, I could have tried different settings, including using my flash :-|
Thanks, again!