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"I'm of the opinion that much of bird photography is now becoming fake, and that puts bird photographers in a bad light."
Can you explain what you mean by that and why you think it?
As for the OP. I didnt see the original post but have always taken a photographers word for their work. If they say its a true record thats good enough for me. At the end of the day they are only kidding them selves if they are not telling the truth. As for asking for a RAW file. If it was me I wouldnt have sent it, and I have a lot of respect for the guy who requested it. I would just feel that I had nothing to prove one way or the other and left it at that.
I have noticed on several forums that there does seem to be a "holier than thou" attitude toward some posts where it turns out that the photographer has paid to use a hide to get their images and others havent and seem to think that the images are somehow of a lesser merit.
Its easy to be smug if you have access to a particular type of bird or mammal but in other parts of the country they are just not around in the quantities to get good images. Utilising other peoples access to get images does'nt make them of a lesser qualilty that onyone else.
Just to make it clear the above is an observation and is not a reference to anyone or any post on here specifically.
I'm only offering my thoughts.... and from what I've seen at times, people are misleading in their information, until such time as they are being 'found out'.
I have no problem with the use of hides either....
Sometimes, I'd rather see a well taken bird image, of a bird that's sat in a tree, than those images where there is no clue as to the birds habitat, because birds are photographed on 'a stick'....people no longer want 'clutter' in their images.
I have lost count of the amount of times that the general public think birds only live on sticks....and have no clue where the birds habitat is.