I posted this a week ago to the wrong thread so I'm copying and pasting it here for critique and suggestions.
Even with being inexperienced and not understanding the technicalities of photography and cameras, I still enjoy taking point and shoot pictures and I did learn about cropping images from others on this site. My camera is a Canon PowerShot SX60HS with a fixed lens. I keep the setting on P which my husband reminded me was for Program and although I don't know how to program anything, I seem to have better luck with it set to P rather then the Automatic (A) setting. When it's on automatic, it seems like the little green box always wants to be in the bottom left in the viewfinder, or somewhere other than where I'm trying to focus.
I really enjoy taking pictures of our backyard birds but sometimes they are here one minute and gone the next. I had cataracts removed 2 years ago but I've been having vision issues again and apparently need a laser procedure but due to Covid and my age, my appointment with the eye doc keeps getting rescheduled. When taking pictures of birds, I zoom in and keep clicking but I never know for sure what I've captured until I get them downloaded to the larger screen of my laptop.
Anyway ... I recently took this photo of a Woodpecker in my backyard and cropped out the part of the tree that was visible on the left side and I do think it looks much better but once I put it on the computer, I zoomed in further before cropping and I think I zoomed a bit too much. Suggestions/Advice on what I could have/should have done differently are much appreciated! The blurred background was due to it being a windy day but I like the look.
