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Shot @ ISO 3200 in near darkness, I like the treatment from my trial

version of Lightroom that's a great software!!

I lived near a huge wood with houses around it for ten years and I never once saw an owl that I could photograph. I think I saw one fly in front of the car and touch the windshield but it flew off.

 

Very nice image.Depth of field is great, capturing the owl, branches, and trunk, with everything else sofented. Very real, three-dimensional feeling.

 

Lightroom is a terrific package. Looking forward to upgrading to version 2 when it comes out, beta now.

Looks a lot like my spotted owl, I just posted. Using curves in lightroom, you might be able to lighten owl a bit. I use lightroom for 90% of my editing, its so fast and very intuitive.