Technical Details

All the photographs were taken on a Nikon D500 camera, with a Sigma 150-600 f/5.6-6.3 C lens. In general, the sensitivity was ISO 1000, allowing both short exposures, to avoid subject and camera movement blur, and small apertures (f/8 - f/16) to give better depth of field.

Images were processed through Adobe Lightroom Classic; processing was mainly cropping (some of the birds were a long way away, and so small in the frame) and minor corrections to exposure and shadow/highlight balance. Some images were futher processed with Topaz Gigapixel AI (for the small crops), Topaz Denoise AI, and Topaz Sharpen AI.