The wing formations and body language of snowy owls are fascinating and beautiful, and they change every millisecond. The ideal scenario is to capture these gyrations with frame-filling compositions, but it's extremely hard to do that because the birds move very fast -- especially the males -- and to lock on and maintain focus with a tight, telephoto shot is tough. In this instance, I got lucky. My lens combination was 400mm with a 1.4x teleconverter, giving me 560mm of focal length. This is totally uncropped. The male snowy was diving for a mouse, and the contrast between the white bird against the steel gray-blue sky was ultra dramatic. My settings were 1/3200, f/11, and auto ISO which turned out to be 2000. I used Neat Image software to eliminate the noise.
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