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According to me your pictures are much better than they used to be.
I think your mentor had a point here. There's only one small minus here: the open space in the right top corner. It's inevitable but a bit distracting. DOF and compo are great.

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I know they are better. The reason behind that is that I leave my 300mm lens where it belongs for street shots: at home.
I have evolved to shooting scenes rather than people. Interesting places, where I try to give every person its own, valuable spot. I will post an image, which, to my mentor's opinion, is the best composition I've ever done. It features four people, each in a different place in the image, and each at a different depth in the field. I shot it at 28mm, which unfortunately is the widest angle I have at this moment (and with the crop factor, it's even more).
I'd like you to judge that one too.

Right. I already posted it. It's the post titled "Skaters".

I disagree with the suggestion on this image. I think the new crop basically takes the people out of the picture already -- whereas before, they are surrounded by birds, now they're just an afterthought in an image of a few birds flying the other direction. It does not look more threatening, because the people are about to escape (and appear not to notice the birds anyway).

In the other image, they are still oblivious, but they are surrounded. That is what makes the picture so interesting...how can they NOT notice all the commotion of the birds? What are they talking about? They should be ducking, taking cover, or at least watching, the flight...but instead they're surrounded by chaos, but unaffected by it.

I think the full image is much more powerful. That said, I still like this one...you have a good enough image here that you have a lot of options with how to treat it.

nice, well captured image, but i have to say the previous uncropped version is by far better.

I think any lens can do SP, but you're doing better with the recent choices you made.

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Thanks my friend. It's much appreciated.

I agree with EC...your pictures are vastly better.

Its kind of intimidating actually. :)