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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gandytron" data-source="post: 1648588" data-attributes="member: 47750">Roy,  great idea to keep pushing the audience for participation!!!My thoughts as follows (bare in mind that I consider myself to be a basic P'shop user):*Depth of field is nice, and the bokeh is quite lovely, but those halos are quite obvious  - a product of over sharpening of general over processing? * The lighting is difficult (because of the contrast), but potentially rewarding. The whites on the bird's back and the post are rather burned out, but the birds face is nicely exposed - perhaps you can do something more subtle with it using 'curves' *Composition I have a problem with - I'd probably crop the original image less and have the subject  centered or to the right of centre slightly: whilst it is true that the bird is now looking into the space to the left, my instinct would be to have  the space where it will be looking when not turning it's head (ie to the right).  The reason I'd crop slightly less is because I like the Bokeh and would want to see more of it. Very best wishesDave</blockquote>