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BF_Hammer
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May 2, 2018
I don't think you need to feel bad about investing in APS-C. Mirrorless FX may be the sexy trend right now, but it has not overtaken the market yet. You will be finding plenty of items and support for your 7D for years to come. I still shoot with an APS-C Nikon D7000 from several years ago and will not be replacing it anytime soon myself.
What I notice looking at your photos shared is you would benefit by paying some more attention to what is behind your main subject. I would call the background "busy" in most of the shots. The 2nd shot has a beautiful view of the macaw, but then my eyes get drawn to the photographer behind it. The lines of the truck get lost in the nearly identical-color parking ramp behind it. The buildings peeking in through the gap in the trees compete for your eyeballs with the filtered sunlight.
Fixing the macaw background I realize is difficult. It can be done at the time the shot is being taken by the right lens selection, and using aperture-priority mode to use a lower f-stop. The goal being to make your depth of field shallow and put the people in the background even further out of focus, which isolates your main subject better. That same technique is possible for the sun filtering through the trees, or simply repositioning yourself to have more sky visible in the gap, less building if possible. The truck, it has to be recomposed. Moving the truck and yourself to line-up a more contrasting background would be best. And the background needs some softening by making the depth of field narrower. Or else a dark-brick commercial building could get the right contrast to make the truck pop more. That is just how I would do things, and there are people more artistically-gifted than me who would have other ideas too.
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