First Image Post

[Russell Graves]

Here is my first image posted to the forum. It is one I took a couple of weeks ago.

I love turkeys and I love shooting pictures of them even more.

Hope you like it...

-Russell

[lovemylegacy]

Man what anice pic, the colors and lighting is brillant.

[Full curl]

Nice pic. Love the color. Welcome to the site.

[killroy]

Great Picture!

[bowhuntertex]

That is an awesome picture Russell. One day I may get to be as half as good as you are.........

[DaveS903]

Stunning!

[TexLongFan]

Very nice...

[Shane]

Nice! Russell, looks like you were eye level for sure. Was he on a rise, or were you laying down? What was your setup to get the shot?

I was just wondering if you were hunting....in a blind...turkey call...decoy...etc...

That's a great shot.

[Bluesman]

Fantastic light. Great capture!

[Hoyt Man]

Awesome

[supertrooperl14]

Ditto ^^^^

[Wildman]

Spot on exposure!

Great job!

[Deer716]

Awesome pic

[Russell Graves]

Nice! Russell, looks like you were eye level for sure. Was he on a rise, or were you laying down? What was your setup to get the shot?

I was just wondering if you were hunting....in a blind...turkey call...decoy...etc...

That's a great shot.

Thanks everyone.

I was at eye level, Shane. I was setting low and he was on a rise so it worked out nicely.

I spotted the rise when it was magically lit and kept hoping a turkey would walk up on it and gobble and he did.

As far as set-up, I was shooting from a pop-up blind with no decoys and I always use a diaphragm mouth call to get them to gobble on command.

I shot this image using a Canon 1D Mark III with a 500mm lens.

Manually focused and manually exposed at 1/250 @ f8 with an ISO of 640.

Thanks,

Russell Graves

[Shane]

Did you have a 2x teleconverter too? EXIF says 1000mm. (I'm jealous.)