@Kodiak Qc Gives criticism that some find useful and some may find controversial.
Just as some might find your own criticism somewhat blinkered.
We can accept or ignore all criticism just as we choose. and take and learn from it as much as we care to.
In a like manner
@Kodiak Qc can accept or reject criticism of his own work just as he chooses.
I have called your Criticism Blinkered because you seem to be making no effort to come to terms with what is either being shown to you,
nor what you might learn from it.
The criticism you offer is negative rather than positive and rarely supported by reasoned argument.
I accept that you do not care for saturated low key environmental images of Birds.
Beyond that your criticism is not exactly helpful.
It adds nothing in the way of criticism that might be useful to @Kodiak.Qc or add to his repertoire of techniques or to his business.
It is as useful as the criticism that suggest a photographer move a tree to improve a composition.
When
@Kodiak Qc edits an image and gives advice, we can agree or not as we choose. but it is fair to say he always gives reasons for his opinions.
His edits of other people work do not look like his marsh shots, because they are not his marsh shots. Any more that his commercial work looks like his marsh shots.
And why should they?
I was once told by the site surveyor, that all the progress shots I was taking of a large building project looked like they were taken on a warm sunny day, Where as in reality they were working in wet deep mud most of the time. The reason of course was the shots were required to give maximum detail and content, not an impression of the weather conditions. His criticism was true but not helpful.
( I always gave a set of the progress shots to the site managers to keep them sweet. not because they needed them....) I got a cup of tea when they had a break, and never had problems on site. and always got advanced notice of anything special going on.
I presume
@Kodiak Qc marsh shots look the way they do, because he choses the environment and light to create a coherent and saleable set of images.
In the same way that other people seem to create sets of Seaside bright images of all their subjects.... neither is right or wrong, unless it it is just accidental.
