I began my snowy owl workshop in Canada today. When it comes to photographing wildlife, every experience is unique and different from past encounters. This shot of a male snowy owl is unlike anything I've captured in the past. It shows the ferocity of the wind-blown snow in the background, and the wing position of the owl offers rare symmetry as it was taking off. I composed the bird in the center of the frame to underscore that symmetry. I took other shots today where a snowy owl filled more of the frame, but I like this particular framing because it gives a sense of the frigid environment in which these birds thrive. My settings were 1/3200, f/11, and auto ISO which in this case, with this amount of afternoon light, was 1000. I set the camera on manual exposure mode, and I used a small center cluster of 4 focus points.
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