Hi folks.
While practising flight photography in North Cornwall recently, I thought it'd be worth keeping the shutter rolling as birds went beyond filling the frame.
This was coupled to the realisation that the convention of 'sun angle' was off but would provide a form of backlighting that could reveal wing structure and in the trailing edge feathers, a hopefully controlled sense of the strong, directional sunlight that was attractive.
This particular frame provided a head angle that was married to an asymmetrical composition that takes the bird's vision down the wing. A slight edge crop was employed to tighten things up.
Canon 7D MkII / Canon EF70-200mm f2.8L IS MkII @ 200mm + Canon EF2x teleconverter (640mm effective).
1/4000 second @ f11 - ISO 1600