Quote Originally Posted by Allen Hirsch View Post
Really? But the preferred head angle nearly always has the bird making eye contact with the camera, does it not?

Isn't it the eye, not the head angle, that makes the emotional connection with the image viewer?
Hi Allen, I think that I have written at length on this somewhere in this thread but have no idea where :) Or it may have been elsewhere on BPN. So I will be brief. I rarely if ever utter the words "eye contact" or "catch light." I watch the head angle and the way the light hits the birds face. When I am happy, I push the shutter button. As it happens, if the bird is facing away from me the light cannot strike the face at all.... IAC, I never think eye contact. In most cases, I do not know or care what it means.

Does that make any sense?