{"id":1277,"date":"2009-01-01T23:01:57","date_gmt":"2009-01-01T23:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/archives\/1277"},"modified":"2013-11-17T19:00:22","modified_gmt":"2013-11-17T19:00:22","slug":"ringed-plovers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/ringed-plovers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ringed Plovers"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

Well the New Year has started with the gloom that afflicted most of December. That puts paid to most wildlife photography, but I decided to head over to Rottingdean Beach in the hope that there would be a smidgen more light by the coast. There wasn't, so for most of the time I kept the camera in the bag. The tide was in which also doesn't help. So no oystercatchers or egrets to catch the eye, and the cormorants were staying a distance from the shoreline. <\/p>\n

I took a few shots of the sea, and of pigeons up against the cliff face, but it was only when I was heading back to the car that I saw something worthwhile. A small flock of ringed plovers were flying in to the shore. They barely paused before flying back out again, but it was sufficient for a few shots. I had the camera set at ISO 1000, and the aperture wide open at f\/5.6. Even so, the shutter speed was dire. All these shots are at between 1\/100s and 1\/160s. That, plus the high ISO, meant that getting anything sharp was unlikely (particularly of a fast moving flock of small birds). So these shots are more atmospheric and impressionistic than usual, though possibly closer to what you actually see when these things fly by at speed.
Incoming plovers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

A blur of plovers<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Plovers departing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

The nearest to a sharp shot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

All the shots have been brightened in Photoshop and been submitted to noise reduction (and moderate sharpening) settings in Neat Image. The rest of the sequence is in the January Birds<\/a> album (try the slide show setting \ud83d\ude09 )<\/p>\n

And as it's the New Year, I'll add one picture from last night. It would seem odd to start 2009 without at least one photo of a fox.
Nicked-ear vixen on New Year's Eve<\/span><\/a>
\"Nature<\/a><\/span>
Camera note: the plovers were all taken with the EF 100-400mm f\/4.5-5.6L USM IS lens. The fox was captured with the EF 24-105 F4L IS USM and Canon 430EX flash unit, set on half power manual setting.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,989],"tags":[33,1128,494],"class_list":["post-1277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-foxes","category-water-birds-birds-2","tag-birds","tag-fox","tag-ringed-plover","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.permuted.org.uk\/photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}