Pics from 3-3 Gobble Gobble

[Chenango Dave]

I still have a hell of a time trying to get sharp pics when its cloudy out. These should have come out alot better. All these birds had nice beards and spurs...

Gobble Gobble

One in flight. at least it was in focus.

And another hawk for today. Hopefully the sun will be around tomorrow..

 

[clutchkiller]

oops.. double post, got it right the second time.

 

[clutchkiller]

OUTSTANDING Dave!!!

I hope you don't mind... I did a auto levels and contrast adjustment, increased the color a little with Match Color and sharpened (hopefully not too much). Took about 45 seconds.

Edit again

I did over sharpen, it wouldn't take much to make your great shot even better with a little post processing.

Awesome shot!

 

[Chenango Dave]

Thanks alot Paul -That looks 10x better. I have the trial version of Capture NX - I just have to sit down and learn how to use it. I probably could have made all these pics look alot better if I knew what I was doing.

 

[clutchkiller]

Dave, they are all great shots... a levels or contrast adjustment usually clears up that cloudy look. Again, I hope you do not mind (if you do, just say so and I wont edit them).

With the walking turkey I just did a manual levels adjustment, it didn't take very much to clear it up. After the levels adjustment I added some more color with Match Color (I like it more that the hue and saturation adjustment).

With the hawk, I did the same and cloned out a few distracting branches... and increased the image size just slightly.

With the flying turkey (my favorite) I did a manual levels adjustment this time (so the snow wouldn't look blown out) and Match Color.

I'll add the other two in separate post.

 

[clutchkiller]

the hawk...

 

[clutchkiller]

and the flying turkey...

 

[Chenango Dave]

I don't mind at all Paul -I thank you again. I just ordered a CD ROM of The Photographers Guide to Capture NX by Jason Odell - I will learn it and start using the RAW so you don't have to clean up after me LOL...

 

[wtnhunt]

Nice shots there.