We had a great day today photographing snowy owls. The lighting was exquisite late in the day, and we were able to capture side lighting and edge lighting on the birds. In addition, the wind was just strong enough to force the owls to use beautiful wing formations to fly. This produced amazing pictures. In this shot, I left the original background and cropped the image to zoom in on the owl. Owls can't move their eyes in their heads; instead, they have to swivel their entire head to see in various directions. That's why owls look over their wings to see what's beside them. My settings here were 1/3200, f/11, auto ISO (which turned out to be 1000), and I used a 100-400mm lens with a 1.4x teleconverter, giving me 560mm of focal length. The best wing formations occur when the snowy owls take flight, and that's what I concentrated on to get this shot.
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