Turkey

[John Mack]

This image was created in Ithaca, New York on 4/6/19 at 7:14AM. Image adjustments in Lightroom and Photoshop.

Hand held, Medium crop.

Canon 5D MarkIV
Sigma 150-600 Contemporary
451mm
ISO 10,000
f6.3
1/160sec

[Joseph Przybyla]

Nice looking Tom. Love the front on pose with the spread tail. The top of the head might be hot, I might check that and tone it down. Thank you for sharing, John.

[David Roach]

A classic view of this tom. I would run another round of NR on BG (at least at top). You did well to keep him in the smoother BG. The EXP looks spot on to me. TFS

[dankearl]

Excellent view of an under appreciated subject.
I would lower the exposure a bit and run some NR..
Detail is excellent.

[Steve Kaluski]

Hi John, at 10k you should be getting a far better result in terms of IQ. The whole image looks dark with heavy blacks choking the detail overall and it's quite saturated too. At 1/160 unless super steady or perhaps using your backpack as a support, I wonder how sharp the raw was and I fear you have tried to use Contrast & Clarity to bring out sharpness/detail which is wrong. I think there is a lot more that is within the Raw that simply has not come through in PP. What I do like is the pose and the head being framed by the fan of the tail, cool timing, going lower would have lost this. The top half is a mess and dropping some dehaze softness that, but having the environment 'lighter' provides better separation between subject & environment.

John are you using ETTR in your camera exposure???

TFS
Steve