Ahah, thanks :)

Your first point is the key. On your suggestion, trimming the bottom would put the reflection out of the middle - which I didn’t like - and the darker color I thought helped “hiding” it a bit and balance the brighter sky. I tried vignette on this other shot, while in the post photo I didn’t want to darken the sky (I’m really not a fan of adding artificial vignetting):

I’ll for sure work on this perspective with the 45mm and longer lenses, taking into account the feedback I got here :)

Thanks for your feedback :)

I wanted to achieve the dreamiest effect possible, then I thought of cropping the very blurry bottom part by going 3:4 instead of 2:3 but didn’t like it as much.

Yep, was my first outing with the RF 45mm F1.2

I’m grown to hate them honestly: since weeks, bigger and bigger flocks dominate the skies around my home, going tree to tree like locusts. I bet they are the reason why I don’t see many other birds around - but I might be wrong and don’t know anything about seasonal and avian fauna behaviors…

Sooo unfortunately - as already found out by another Pixelfed user some weeks ago - cross posting directly from Pixelfed has big caveats: one of them is the loss of multi-picture posts where only the first is seen on Lemmy.

Here my original post, with all 4 sides: https://pixelfed.social/p/LucaPero/914475114515075522

I also tried to reply to you with my Pixelfed account (where I see your comment) but to no avail.