I think it actually matters at least as much that the settings used allow for such hard crops (e.g. SS appropriate for the equivalent FL/Zoom)... which of course relate to shooting conditions.It obviously depends on the size of the subject, (in this case the KF which is tiny), in the original image and the shooting, lighting conditions
I too have many cropped images, in fact most of the images of birds I end up with are "cropped" images
Yup, you can get away with a lot for social media use and online posting...I suppose it is also what is an acceptable image
I think it actually matters at least as much that the settings used allow for such hard crops (e.g. SS appropriate for the equivalent FL/Zoom)... which of course relate to shooting conditions.
The Redtail's eye is tiny in the original image, but you can see details in the retina in the crop.
Yup, you can get away with a lot for social media use and online posting...
Dale - I cannot move "perches" - or get nearer in most of my shots, the birds don't hang around
At a certain point everything just becomes a circle of different tradeoffs with no choice being clearly better than any other...will bigger sensors and AI which is now creeping in improve this situation?
Nothing is better than fieldcraft and getting closer when possible... it reduces technical requirements in every aspect; lens sharpness, technique, settings, environmental, etc.the answer is getting closer to the subject if I'm after a reasonably close frame,