Barred Jungle Owlet

[Partha Misra]

Barred Jungle Owlet (Glaucidium radiatum)


Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve, May 2014

(EXIF: Canon EOS 7D/Sigma 150-500mm @500mm/Aperture Priority/Av-F6.3/Tv-1/320s/ISO1600)

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice head turn and eye contact. Lot of noise can be seen, is it a crop? Was any sharpening done, that has added to the noise. Thanks for sharing.

[Debasis Bose]

Lovely!! seems too much of crop.

[Partha Misra]

Yeah the cropping and sharpening has added a lot of noise. Cropped the image as a twig was protruding in front of the image. I will post the original image.

[Partha Misra]

Can I post the lesser cropped image here in this thread or it would violate the rule of posting multiple image in one post?

[Paramvir Singh]

Excellent!

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Agree with the previous comments. Need to know why so much of noise is there in the image. Was it underexposed? You can post it in the same thread as it is the same image. If different image, then it has to be in different thread.

Can I post the lesser cropped image here in this thread or it would violate the rule of posting multiple image in one post?

[Partha Misra]

Lesser Cropped Image (75%). The Noise is due to high ISO and low light conditions)

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Moving a bit to the right would have helped avoid the branch blocking the tail.

The large copyright logo and text is a bit of distraction.

When you crop images by 100% or close to that it is natural to get high amount of noise.