Birds of Prek Toal
Prek Toal is a magnificent wildlife reserve, off the Tonlé Sap lake in central Cambodia. These photographs were taken just after dawn, from a small boat in one of the many tributaries. I used an Olympus E-M1 Mk II with the Leica 100–400mm lens, which gave an equivalent full-frame length of 200–800mm.
The Olympus was pretty essential as travelling with a bigger full-frame camera and lenses is more or less impossible, given the weight restrictions on local flights (6kg on Bangkok Air, for example). The Olympus was running at 1000–1250 ISO, which is pushing it for these cameras, but using DxO Prime noise reduction I was able to reduce noise to full-frame levels.
Photographs in this album include: Lesser Adjutant, Painted Stork, Great Egrets, Great Egret, Grey Heron, Young Spot-billed Pelican, and more.
For camera settings, techniques and equipment used in shoots like this, see the Technique posts on mcaughtry.photo.