Unposted Owls

[Canoncan]

Here are some owl shots that I have not posted yet. Any thoughts?

 

[anton980]

Very nice photos! Did you get close to it or did you use a telephoto lens?
Were these cut out in photoshop? The edges of an owl seem weird. Maybe it's a compression issue.

 

[Canoncan]

It is a telephoto 300mm> The only adjustment was to darken the sky. These Owls have almost a perfectly round head.

 

[anton980]

Ok By strange edges I mean the dark "band" around the entire body, especially in the third photo where the loose feathers are (in front of owl's face). It's probably from darkening the sky - maybe the fuzziness was set too high and it grabbed some of the feather color and darkened it too.

 

[Mikis]

Owl is very nice but I'm not fan of composition like that. I would choose some more interesting background than clear sky and very very visible noise at that. I also don't enjoy this "frame" around body, maybe chromatic abberation?