Author Topic: A sun-bathing pigeon (Read 1343 times)

Akira · « **on:** October 13, 2015, 11:06:39 »

A calm day. I found a pigeon bathing the sun, unalarmed.

Olympus E-M5 MkII, Nikkor-Q P C 200/4.0. The image was cropped to around 1/9 (area ratio).

Bjørn Rørslett · « **Reply #1 on:** October 13, 2015, 11:55:46 »

Surprisingly crisp considering the age of the lens and the crop.

Did you shoot with the lens stopped far down?

Akira · « **Reply #2 on:** October 13, 2015, 12:05:54 »

Surprisingly crisp considering the age of the lens and the crop.

Did you shoot with the lens stopped far down?

The lens was stopped down to 5.6 or 8.0 (possibly 8.0). Of course, I applied some sharpening in Photoshop.

Mike G · « **Reply #3 on:** October 13, 2015, 14:21:49 »

The pigeon is probably sunbathing and using the UV light to help getting rid of parasites!

Akira · « **Reply #4 on:** October 13, 2015, 15:49:24 »

The pigeon is probably sunbathing and using the UV light to help getting rid of parasites!

Possibly.

I also wonder if the pigeon is aware that the pattern and the color of the wings would work as protecting color on this particular ground.

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