Roy C
Occasional bird snapper
I think it is all a question of taste - all these over sharpened, close-up, and badly composed pics that one sees may appeal to a lot of folk but I prefer a more aesthetically pleasing image.Roy, many of your shots have a very soft look to them. Note that I do not mean soft like your shot is out of focus. I really do not know how to describe it very well. Perhaps it is the lighting they are taken in, or something you do in post. I think they look very nice, but it is not a look that I have ever gotten on any of my pics. As noted previously I generally try and shoot in full sun. My guess is that these are shots in diffuse light?
To be honest I have not seen a single pic from you that I would call a nice image, sharp maybe but mostly very badly composed and the bird is more often than not way too big in the frame to make a decent image. I think you are at the stage where you would not recognize a good 'image' if it was staring you in the face so I take anything you say with a pinch of salt I am afraid .
I can guarantee that if you posted your images on one of the critique forums that is managed by top bird photographers you would be absolutely slated - but always in a nice kind of way as they would know that you are very much a novice by your images (you could learn a lot from a few of these sites).
BTW that first Blackbird in flight shot was chosen from many 1000,s of other shots by a national organization (BBC) recently to champion the bird in a nation bird vote. It also featured on the BBC web site and has been published several times elsewhere - you may think it is soft but far better judges than you appreciated it as a bird image so what the likes of you think about it is irrelevant to me.
Anyway I will leave with one of my all time favorite bird shots that I have taken. I know you would not even start to appreciate but it may wind you up LOL
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