Owl & bighorns

[mattb]

I took a little road trip over the weekend with the family to celebrate my wife's birthday doing one of her favorite things, soaking in hot springs. I like hot springs ok, but it probably wouldn't be on a list of my favorite things so I did a little soaking and some hiking around and shooting.
Right after we arrived and checked in I saw this owl in a tree not far from the hotel so I walked over and shot a few frames. There were originally two, but one flew off before I could get close enough. This one was aware of me but didn't seem too concerned. I used my new (to me) Pentax-A * 300mm f/4 manual focus prime. I really like this lens! The nice light didn't hurt either.

IMGP6987.jpg by MattB.net, on Flickr

Then on the way home we came across these bighorns next to the road. I pulled out the 300mm again and got this one as they headed back up the cliffs.

IMGP7202.jpg by MattB.net, on Flickr

[armando_m]

I never seen an owl in the wild, and lately they seem to be popular on the nature forum

nice light indeed

does the lens produce a warm cast ? of it is just coincidence that also the second shot looks warm ?

[mattb]

Well that's a good question and I see what you mean. I'm not totally sure if it does or not as I have only used it a handful of times so far. I think it may, or may in combination with how I typically process my images it may come out warmer. The owl photo was at sunset and the light was definitely warm - that photo is how I remember seeing it.
Here's one I took with it Saturday Morning and it's a little on the warm side too, but it's also first light of the morning which is typically a warm light (and was that morning). I'll keep looking. I don't think I did any WB correction on these either so that's another variable.


IMGP6920.jpg by MattB.net, on Flickr