Hi Rosl
I like how you captured the eye peeking between the feathers. Beautiful colors and nice detail and color. I did a little different crop.....see if you like it.....I was trying to get that eye more in the corner.
I like this. I think since the eye is the main point of interest, the oof plumage does well by not distracting from the eye itself.
I'm wondering how much impact might be added by processing the eye with a little saturation boost and or darkening the rest of the image other than the eye just a little.
As presented it has a kind of intimate, peering into her world feeling which I like a lot. The crop adds to that even more.
I like this alot - either comp. Nice colors, unusual pose, eye nicely visible and sharp. I don't feel that the OOF foreground feathers are out of focus enough to detract at all.
Thanks to all of you for looking at my picture.
I like your Crop alot, Lana, thank you for working with the image.
And I like the dark BG also; thanks to you, Leroy!
This is a fantastic forum with so many ideas to get! Just Great, I love it!