I'm in the middle of my snowy owl workshop in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan, and it is brutally cold. Most of North America is experiencing this frigid dip in temperature; today it was minus 40 plus, in the afternoo, the wind chill factor made it feel even colder. It feels like the air bites your skin. This is the first time I've had to shoot birds in extremely harsh conditions like this. In addition, it was foggy, and that made it tough for the autofocus mechanism to lock onto the white owls. We managed to get a few shots despite the challenges, though. The best way to catch beautiful wing formations is when the birds first take off from their perch. I captured this image at 20 fps, and my settings were 1/3200, f/10, and 2000 ISO. I used a 100-500mm zoom plus a 1.4x teleconverter, giving me 700mm of focal length. In Photoshop, I replaced the original bland and featureless sky with an image that had a little more visual interest.
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