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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Roy C" data-source="post: 1648864" data-attributes="member: 18798">Nice one Ian, I posted this as a deliberate attempt to get people involved and talking. I knew the image had a lot of shortcomings which made it a good candidate for the critique forum. It would have been pointless posting a belter just for people to say great shot (not that I have ever produce such images :-O but I have had the very occasional fluke).I think you are absolutely right about the crop, a 2x3 portrait crop with just a bit more room on the left than right would work best if there was enough detail in the shot. The heavy cropping has scuppered this so the image is just a binner really.If I had to make an image from the shot I think the best bet would be to take a light crop to make the bird more to the right and include more of the fence and barbed wire but even then the BG would need some attention.</blockquote>