Collared Scop Owl

[Vaishnavi Rajan]

The highlight of the second day at the Birding camp (IIT Chennai) was the spotting of this elusive bird. However, light was very low (6:15 AM) and I did not find place to mount a tripod.

Canon 400 D, Canon 70-300, F5.6, 1/125, ISO 400, +0.7, Hand Held

Please critique and advice

Vaishnavi

[Sabyasachi Patra]

Exposure is fine. Wish you had some better light or a stable support. The habitat is nice. Normally we find the owl in a dead tree. Here the greenery adds to the image. The 100-400 would have been better in this situation.

Cheers,
Sabyasachi

[Mrudul Godbole]

Nice eye contact. The vertical composition looks good. Agree if the light had been good you could have used a narrower aperture to get more details. You can check the tips section to know more about hand holding techniques, so you won't need the tripod . Thanks for sharing.

[Roopak Gangadharan]

Nice image Vaishnavi. Good eye contact.

this species is now called the Indian scops owl (otus bakkamoena). the himalayan species is called Collared scops owl (otus letia) and is not usually found in the south.
TFS
Roopak

[Murugan Anantharaman]

Nice image and the owl looks very cute . Love the way its looking down at you. Agree with the previous comments. Thanks for sharing.

[Vaishnavi Rajan]

thank you and yeah i'll remember that name from now thanks for letting me know