robin

taken with an efective focal lenghth of 1280mm at wakehurst place in

sussex

Martin, hope you don't mind another version of your image.

I can't believe anyone would rate this a 3!?! This is fantastic. The color and details are amazing.

nice lighting. birds are hard to get doing cool-looking things, but this is a good one!

thanks for your generous comment star. i have no idea as to why photos are recieving such harsh ratings. i only hope and pray that the P/N moderators eventualy see sense and give up on this mad idea that not having the raters name published with there rating improves the fairness of the rates given. it seems that no matter what image you put up, within moments i have always got at least one 3/3 rating and often more. Sondra i like what you have done with the shot, id just like to say that i haven done the same with the background, it is as shot.

Un gran fondo destacando los tonos del ave , saludos

I can give Some insight into the low ratings, because I am guilty of the deed myself. As an example when I first started here I read FAQ on ratings and ended up at rate recent photos. Well it is a good photo of a Robin, and it's a bird. How original is that? Click-click 4/3 next photo! Little did I know about anything, including that my name was not left. Aesthetics are very subjective but a useful measure. Originality? On photos, that to me is a near useless number. Butterflies, Flowers, portraits how many can really be considered an original work? Technique or something similar would have more benefit to users. So I apologize for leaving what turned out to be not good ratings. I have since adjusted my ratings I gave this photo to better fit my understanding of photography and the Photo net community.