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Black-faced Waxbill

Black-faced Waxbill - Adult

Photographer

» Glenn Pure

Location

» Windhoek Botanic Gardens

Country image taken

» Namibia

Date

» May, 2017

Equipment

» Canon 80D with Canon 100-400mm Mark II L IS USM at 400mm handheld

Bird Species

»Brunhilda erythronotos - Black-faced Waxbill

Bird Species (French)

»Astrild à moustaches

Bird Family

»Estrildidae - Waxbills, Mannikins & Allies

Bird Group

»Passeriformes Flycatchers, Starlings, Sunbirds, Swallows, Warblers, Weavers etc

Bird Status

» Least Concern

Remarks

» Manual exposure 1/1600 sec, f6.3 ISO 640. Lighting adjustments, NR, cropping and digital lens optimiser applied in Canon DPP 4. Exported 16 bit TIFF file processed in Adobe Photoshop Elements with Neat Image NR plugin to reduce noise. Sharpened after final size reduction.

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