
Originally Posted by
falke
Thank you so much for your time, Fabs! I am a little divided here and maybe you can help me out..... ;o)
I can't help thinking that your edit makes the photo stronger as it makes the Kingfisher stand out even further
However despite this, am I not sure that this is the right way to go. In Sweden we have a debate among birders about digital manipulation of bird photographs. I know that you have only changed the BG but even so. Is this kind of digital editing OK here on this site and regarded as OK even by ornithologists in the USA. As a biologist I like to see the habitat, the BG and the things around... but I think that on quite a few photographs the birds seems almost stuffed and put on a stand in a museum... as there is no environment what so ever. I think that it should not be too perfect... then it becomes unnatural and in some way artificial.