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Imagemaster wrote:
You have missed my point. You are noticing the weird bokeh more because you are looking at it magnified (same as cropped). It is no different close to the owl's head than it is in the rest of the background. It is a result of the lens you are using, distance of background from subject, and f-stop.
Want to not get it? Buy a more expensive lens, don't have a busy background close to subject, shoot with a f2.8 lens, etc., etc.
Want to make it less detracting in existing image? Fix it, remove it, or smooth it out in post-processing.
Unlikely it is heat waves.
Googling 'bokeh' will bring up all sorts of examples of bokeh, why it occurs in different degrees, and how to deal with it....Show more →
I completely agree with Imagemaster. I have this lens, although I rarely use it due to the slow aperture at longer FL's. The owl is so close to the busy background (at the high angle that it is shot) that even faster, more expensive zoom lenses would likely not render his scene particularly well.
I you are open to suggestions, the shot might have been more pleasing to you if you had placed the camera near the ground (at bird level) to gain effective separation from the background. The tall grass, as the dominant, mostly monochromatic, background also might have been an improvement.
Also, professional wildlife photographers all seem to emphasize shooting at the same level as the bird. I am rarely happy with my bird photo's if I am either shooting down, or even up, at the bird(s). Finally, having a pleasing background can be 90% of the shot desirability when shooting birds. If my bird shots have a distracting background due to either color or textures, I either delete the shot, soften or reduce background contrast in PP, alter the hue or just replace it, altogether.
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