The body angle is a little high. He's not shrugging his shoulders though so it's not a shrug is it. A row is a row is a row regardless of body angle. But the higher up you are the more upper traps will take over, in my experience.
Some people, btw, think that a row is EXACTLY that plus the lower back rocking it up, etc. There are a million "versions" out there, and it really all comes down to opinion as to what a particular exercise or set of exercises is supposed to accomplish.
I'd like to see you get lower than that, of course, but I'm not going to be the row Nazi and insist everything being parallel. Most people are focused totally on body angle yet as both I and IW have mentioned are basically doing barbell curls. Using the proper back muscles to lift with is more important than subsribing to some fixed notion of body angle since this can be accomplished without being parallel. So work on getting lower but concentrate on the "technique".
I'd like to see you slow down the reps and try to get a bit more stretch at the bottom. I would question your mid and upper back mobility, btw. It looks better but I still see very little difference between the bottom and top position. Try to get those scapular going forward (protracting) and then pinch them toghether even more at the top. As I said, I would expect the chest to "spread out" more at the top.
You may need to lighten the weight more. Or try a low cable row so you can concentrate completely on the technique without having to support the weight at the lower back. In other words, do one thing at a time.
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