Yesterday, our turkey friends returned for Wickett's Buffet. It is comical to see them running toward their daily treat. So the one turkey pecked away at the mirror as it did the day prior. Today the turkey rapidly circled the stump and mirror. I took a few minutes of video and then put the mirror away as I did not have a straight jacket the right size for the turkey. The attached 3 pictures are: the turkey proudly showing its fan...ny, staring blankly again at the image, and peeking behind the mirror to figure where the other turkey hides. The turkey has given us bucketfuls of laughs and several gigabytes of images.
Enjoy
Turkey Teaser Linwood Wickett
Stratham, NH
Technical: (from a non-technical camera guy)
The turkey pictures were taken with my (35x) Canon SX 30 IS not fully zoomed. ISO was 100 and I used the P mode, rather than the Av or Tv mode as it gave me the best shots. The Av mode set at F8 was too slow (causing blur) and the Tv mode would have been guess work that the camera did much better. The photos were emailed at Windows Medium Resolution. The Canon camera shoots at 14.3 mp but doesn't shoot RAW. RAW shooting is on my "round-to-it" list of things to do later with my Nikon D7000. I am getting much better results with distant feather details for birds with my Canon than my Nikon D7000 using the Nikon 55-300mm lens at 16mp. Rather than spend $ 10,500 for the lens I would want, I will stick with the Canon for these long shots for now. However, I am finding the D7000 incredible at events with no flash and high ISO. I am finding little difference in the noise level from ISO 400 to ISO 2000 with the Nikon D7000. The Canon has been unusable for indoor events with or without flash at any ISO of 100-800, but makes a great lens to supplement my D7000 for day time "birdie" shots. I purchased the Nikon D7000 at the end of July, so to further investigate its capabilities, would tax my learning curve, which is similar to the turkey's learning curve.
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