From: Cotty
On 2/3/09, John Sessoms, discombobulated, unleashed:
>I found a couple of what I think are great horned owls, and am wondering
>about photographing them. They seem to have staked out a small clump of
>pines alongside one of the greenways in town, but they're staying pretty
>high up where it's going to be hard to reach them even with my 300.
>
>I'm wondering about using strobes when photographing owls, whether it
>will do them any harm?
My only experience was this barn owl that regularly caught prey on a
summer's evening before sunset. Fairly heavy crop (200mm on a 1.3
sensor) and the focus is soft but this was a better shot than the
sharper ones....
<http://www.cottysnaps.com/snaps/nature/images/pic5.html>
Nicely done. I can't tell if you were using a strobe or not.
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