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    • Hi, welcome! Thanks for being brave enough to post in "critiques". I like this shot, but actually could like it more- without the wire and birds! They are so minimal as to be barely noticeable. For me, there's always something about fence lines and open prairie that captures my imagination. It's such a big, wide open scene that having to "dial it down" to really see the birds comes off (to me) as work. I advise to have your intended subject(s)  be stronger overall in the frame, let the subject be the subject, rather than an "oh OK wait, what's this?"  element of your photo. I guess what I'm trying to say is that here, the birds don't really come off as the primary intent of the photo. SInce you mentioned the word "crop" I'd now like to see the whole original photo uncropped! This brings me to something a good friend who is an accomplished photographer told me once, "get the shot correct in the frame to begin with". In otherwords, create the shot you want in the here & now- as you're shooting. It gives the viewer a stronger sense of your intentions, and makes for less post work as well! As to the "soft" focus in the extreme foreground, somebody else may back me up on this - but considering the overall look of the shot, I guess that foreground stuff is simply too close to where you were standing, to be in focus. For a shot such as this, one might assume the aperture would be something like f/11, focus distance set to infinity?  Any elements  closer than "X" feet away, won't be in focus, while all distant elements would be.  Although IIrC you did use the words "wide open" which seems to point towards the opposite- F/2 or whatever (wide open) rather than a smaller aperture like f/11.      Good luck with your new camera(s) and your venture into photography!  
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