African Wattled Lapwing Portrait

[Stu Bowie]

I have a full body shot of this guy, but I thought I would share a close up portrait of the Wattled Plover. They are fairly chilled when sticking your lens out the window, but never seem to pose at the right angle. Taken in Rietvlei nature reserve close to my house.

Canon 50D
100-400 @ 400mm
1/320
F/7.1
ISO 400

Exp Comp +0.33
Hand held from the car

[Doug Brown]

Interesting subject with good sharpness. As you mentioned, a slight head turn would have been nice. And I would have liked a bit more sun hitting the bird's face.

[Kaustubh Deshpande]

Stuart, I really envy you.....the opportuities you get to make head shots at 400mm.....and you make the most of them. Lovely bokeh in this one. Liked the diagonal element in the composition. Sharpness excellent as usual.

[Dave Hassell]

Another of your excellent images with a clean background that enhances the colours of the head. Well focussed and exposed.

Dave.

[Simon Bennett]

Plenty of detail and well exposed Stuart.

[Stu Bowie]

Thanks a lot guys. Much appreciated.

[Mark Dumbleton]

I like this portrait Stu! Super BG and colours. If it were mine, I would have tried to use a touch of fill-flash to "liven" up the eye a bit. Still a great image well done!

[Morkel Erasmus]

this one oozes with detail Stu. like the colours and also wish for a bit more head-turn :)