In response to your request for comment: This is overall a lovely photograph, with nice colour to it. I understand that someone is holding this animal, but I think the orientation should be portrait as opposed to landscape; this way, you could have filled the entire frame with the owl's body, and gotten more of him in the shot, even including the keeper, which I think would have added great interest. In the orientation you chose, there's a bit too much of the quite bright background. As the background also contains vertical lines, and the animal is more or less vertical, this creates for me a bit of a "stretching" of the image horizontally that detracts somewhat.
I think you may have oversharpened things a bit, because detail is lost in the feathers of the bird, making it look almost grainy in some spots. Overall, though, a neat picture. |