Red-wattled Lapwing

[Richard Stern]

...... in a village in the Thar Desert near Jaisalmer, Rajasthan, India in early Feb.. These birds were widespread, and relatively tame, on our recent trip.


Camera Model: NIKON D300
Focal Length: 400.0mm (35mm equivalent: 600mm)
Focus Distance: 9.44m
Aperture: f/8.0
Exposure Time: 0.0010 s (1/1000)
ISO equiv: 500
Exposure Bias: +0.33
80-400VR, hand-held

Richard

[Don Lacy]

Cool looking bird, you did a nice job handling the exposure considering the light and I like the way the BG compliments the subject. I think some fill flash would have been nice to pull some more details out of the blacks and the top of the BG being in shadow is small distraction.

[Ilija Dukovski]

Great bird, did well under strong light, I think lower angle would
make this image better.

[Bert De Tilly]

I find shooting great, I like the little dot in the eye

[Mark Young]

Very nice shorebird. Like the horizontal pose and the angle.