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    The Crested Pigeon at left is trying out his bowing, fanning, whooping display. What should I do about the bird at right - this crop keeps the love interest, or maybe I should just crop to the displaying bird. What do you think?

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    I think you could leave it......to explain the position better or crop vertically. It would be a tight crop but I think it would work. What a beautiful pigeon. Nice exposure and detail. Well done.

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    Difficult decision here Simon, I tend to agree with Lana, I would leave the other bird, I think you have selected the best option. More room at the bottom would be nice. I think more to the right would add to much OOF bird and be distracting. Like the action, quite a few of these from my efforts to date have landed in the trash bin, good to see someone witrh a good result.

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    A beautiful pigeon, Simon, and nice, clean image of him. I agree that you could leave the other bird. I think there could be just a bit more room top, bottom, and left - seems a bit tight to me.

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    Definitely leave bird #2. Would include a bit more on the right if you have it. Wonderful display but unmentioned problems as follows:

    1-The sharp focus is just this side of the tail; it looks as if you were using the central sensor and focused way, way beyond the eye.
    2-Looks like a bit of spotlight lighting but the spotlight is on the shoulder/side of the breast rather than on the head, thus the side of the breast looks very bright. A reverse S-Curves ADJ could help.
    3-As a result of #1 the eye, face, and head could be selectively sharpened.
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    I hate to disagree with the others, but a quick screen crop to *just* remove the bird on the right sure looks good!

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