I like it a lot Mike You sure are having shadow detail in your birds !!!! Appealing angle looking form the back side with a great head turn. About the only thing I would suggest is leaving a little more room on the left side and less on the right. Might look even better just off center !!! Excellent !!!!
I really like the shadow details. I also love the symmetry of the tail and wing feathers.
I was thinking of ways to emphasize the great back symmetry you have, along with Alfred's cropping suggestions. I hope you don't mind that I reposted your image with this crop idea along with ~ 7 degree rotation. Do you think that having the bird's back more vertical, shows off the bird's symmetry better? It also seems to make your nice head turn more intimate, and allows some more room for it to look into on the left. Also, the fence wire is now at a more dynamic diagonal.
Very nice image here Mike. I really don't have anything to add to Al and Brian's comments. As for Brian's re-post I like it but no necessarily any better than your original.
Mike
I've yet to get a nice image of this bird.....so I'm glad that you have a nice one posted. I'd go with a little more room as Al has suggested. I can see Brian's point on his repost but I think the original works just fine. Nice pose and plenty of good detail. Well done.
Mike, I really like this image! As others said, great shadow detail, and I love the lovely symmetrical display of those back and tail feathers. You got great detail in all the feathers, which seems a bit hard to do with these birds. Your presentation is fine, but I have to say I like Brian's a little better. Good job and thanks for sharing!
Brian, thanks for spending the time to illustrate your idea.
I agree that your repost does indeed achieve all of the effects that your mentioned.
I never realized that a simple rotation could have such an impact.
I am still partial to the original but only because that's how it actually appeared
when I photographed it.
Yellow-headed Blackbird
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