{"id":17459,"date":"2023-06-19T06:14:50","date_gmt":"2023-06-19T10:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=17459"},"modified":"2023-06-19T06:14:50","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T10:14:50","slug":"maine-piping-plovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/psnp.info\/p4td_\/?p=17459","title":{"rendered":"Maine! Piping Plovers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Piping Plovers: York County, Maine, USA, June 2023 \u2014 This adult plover was telling me I was too close to the chick\u2026though I was not moving. The chick was coming to me. So maybe it was telling the chick it was too close to me. At any rate, I backed off after this shot. Or these shots. If you know about long lens photography (these were taken at 800mm equivalent and cropped in so I was actually about 20 feet away) you will know that it is impossible that the both the adult and the chick could be in focus at the same time. The chick was several feet behind the adult\u2026just barely in the same frame. I took a shot of the adult with the chick out of focus in the background, and then refocused on the chick and took a second shot. When processed and combined in Pixelmator Pro, and touched up, you get this\u2026and even here I bet your attention is switching back and forth between the birds\u2026it is almost impossible to focus on both at the same time, even in this flat composite. Just the way our eyes and brains work. \ud83d\ude42 Olympus Systems OM-1 with 100 to 400mm zoom. Program mode with my evolving bird modifications. Processed in Pixelmator Pro. ISO 200 @ f8 @ 1\/2000th. -.3EV for the beach light. <\/p>\n

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