Voted earlier coming back to comment.
I get that you were trying to channel Hitchcock's The Birds. The color and hue of the sky is foreboding and spooky. Unfortunately the birds don't project any sense of doom or danger. The orientation in the same direction lends itself more to a migration. Also and same bird & pose just in different sizes projects repetition and uniform pattern. Most formations will have the birds looking distintively different either because of angle or position of wing. For this composition to project danger or foreboding the birds really needed to be oriented like they were coming for the viewer, eyes glaring and maybe some open beaks. Not an easy task to capture a bird looking and flying straight at you, but that is what was needed to make it sinister. |