Northern Lapwing (Vanellus vanellus)

[Bill Nuttall]

D750
Nikon 600mm f4 + Tc14Ell
f8 - ISO900 - 1/1250th sec
LR + PS
Hampshire, UK, today

HA - not good - most of my bird images seem to be looking out to sea this week

[Randy Stout]

Bill:

Those darn birds, just won't look the right way sometimes. I will occ. give a little "cluck" noise to see if they will turn back towards me. Sometimes works, depends somewhat on the species.

The soft light gave nice iridescence on the wing.

When I have a gaze like this, I will try to compose it so that you have more of a sense of where he is looking towards, perhaps to augment the story telling nature of the image. Esp. if there is something "out there" which I realize in this case probably wasn't possible.

Cheers

Randy

[Don Lacy]

Hi Bill, All the techs look good just wish he could have given you a bit more to work with when it came to the pose.

[Ákos Lumnitzer]

I would love a looser crop and a better head angle.
However, the soft light gave you lovely plumage detail.
You're getting some better shots up here now. Great to see mate!
Keep up the great work!
TFS

[Bill Nuttall]

Thanks All for your comments

I can do a looser crop

Head Angle - as I said with most of my "better" shot the birds seem to want to "look out at sea" ……. a bit like some of my images!!

I need to "pay" my models more!!

Thanks again