What’s wrong with this picture?
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his is a superb starling I captured in Kenya. It’s a beautiful bird, and I was lucky to be able to take this frame-filling shot with a 500mm f/4 Canon telephoto and a 2x teleconverter giving me 1000mm of focal length. I like this image a lot except for one thing. In the lower right corner, the out of focus branch is, once you notice it, quite distracting. I find that my eye tends to wander down to that corner too often, and that’s not how a successful image is supposed to work. The branch in the lower left corner isn’t ideal also, but it’s not terribly distracting at least to my eye. Ideally, though, it should be removed. 23
