Olive-backed Sunbird
by zerocusa

Comment:
What a capture! You must be thrilled! A really wonderful image showing natural bird behaviour!

Seeing through
by vikas

Comment:
Really like the brave use of negative space. Lack of sharp detail detracts somewhat for me.

Bogee
by Dirgeelucidatr

Comment:
Really unusual composition and works really well for me. The colour seems very saturated and the image overall seems a touch soft but I like it a lot overall.

Gentle Spirit Stretch
by Shecoya

Comment:
Interesting/ unusual viewpoint and nice black and white conversion. Lovely light/ detail in the eye.

Black-capped Chickadee
by janruss

Comment:
Nice clarity of detail and shallow DOF works well to blur the background. Composition doesn't quite work for me; even with the body of the bird being left of centre it feels quite centred overall.

Buzz Off Birdie!
by nidici

Comment:
Nice backlighting - works well with side view. Composition not so strong for me, I think it would work better if the bird was looking into the negative space area of the image rather than out of it.

South Indian Monkey
by Falc

Comment:
Nice light and shade - I like how his face is in the light, with lovely catchlights in his eyes, but that overall he's in the shade.

Proud
by arbil14

Comment:
Shallow DOF works really well to isolate him from the lovely lush green background. I like the pose he's in and the detail/ light in the eye.

Land of the Buck
by AlexSaberi

Comment:
Beautiful silhouette - I like the way you've included a trio with the nearest one also being sideways on. Works well.

Take Me To Your Leader.....
by espy2

Comment:
Rose
It doesn't matter a hill of beans how many sites, books, papers you have read on shallow DOF since you clearly have not understood fully the quality of the blurred areas of a shallow-DOF image. You can throw terminology such as confusion line and bokeh out all you like but you simply have not made a good job of producing a realistic shallow-DOF effect using PP.
You can insist if you want to that Konador's comments were made out of spite but it's clear to pretty much everyone who reads them that his comments are not only spot on in regards to your entry but politely and generously given.
Clearly you prefer to assume the worst in people and to blame any responses you don't like on personal animosity, abuse of SC powers or any number of other conspiracy theories you currently believe in.
Questioning the status quo isn't a bad thing to do per se but you seem to be unable to do so without getting angry and personal, especially if the majority fails to see things your way.
The nature of this site is mutual support and learning. If you don't think you can learn anything from comments given, why are you here and not somewhere else?