Nice look back pose, and nice view of the plover's backside plumage. Only thing is that the shade on the back of the head is creeping up close to the eye...I know it is not always possible, but had you had the chance to move over to your right that would have been excellent for the light angle and also perhaps for moving the BG "split" colour away. Well exposed and sharp image.
As above. Plus, you did a pretty good job with the 90 degree light.... Much better from where I sit to have moved to your right. Sharpest focus seems to be on the back. For over the shoulder images it is best to go for lots of d-o-f; here, you could easily have worked at f/11 or even smaller.
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I support the 2 previous comments. Over the shoulder images are very difficult to master. In this case it is well done and the background is pleasing and OOF. I do not know if it was far enough to remain OOF at f/11.
Very nice BKGD and pose. I looked at the image first and then went right to the techs to see what the aperture was because the DOF was pretty good but, as Artie points out, you definitely could have gone to a smaller aperture to achieve that little extra DOF. Cheers.
I agree with you that I should use smaller aperture. There was bad weather that day, so high ISO. Then things started to go fast. The bird landed on a rock, then the sun came out from between the clouds, I had to run around the bird to get in position and finally jumping on wet slippery rocks. But I have learned, check aperture.
Golden Plover juv.
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