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A few people have told me I should make more effort to make eye contact with the individual being photographed.

Does this suffice?

dm_td5 wrote:Does this suffice?

I would say so. That's a great shot.
You could probably sharpen it a little bit more.

I didn't think non-carnivorous birds normally looked at you front-on like that.

Daniel

Hehe excellent work

Indeed. Good composition, colours, DOF, exposure, etc.. A tad soft though, but not hard to correct.

DanielA wrote:I didn't think non-carnivorous birds normally looked at you front-on like that.

How do you know they are not carnivorous? My cat is petrified of these (and other) birds

Yes it is a tad soft, oops

dm_td5 wrote:How do you know they are not carnivorous? My cat is petrified of these (and other) birds

We would see more mauled cats around if they were...

dm_td5 wrote:Yes it is a tad soft, oops

Easily fixed in post processing.
You did very well at 1/125s, 340mm. It could also be due to the TC.

Daniel