Thanks for your answers and photos adjustments guys. I've never heard of Lab mode before in CS4 or at least nobody ever talked about it. I'm hoping to take some classes this summer, and with the student discount, get my very own CS program. Right now I'm just able to use LR3 and that is because it's free. And, no brendan, I didn't take offense. Glad you liked my deformed goose andperfectly focuseddogtail. As I was typing this, an eagle flew bythe window! There just taunting me now. Back on topic, I know this picture is hopeless to work with, but was needing guidance on settings to use in the future.


As far as distance goes, I was pretty far off just to see if I could keep them inmy lens,and had to crop so you could see what I was talking about as far as color,ect., and Irealize shouldn't expect to get detail from so far away. I knew 1/5000 was entirely too fast and will switch to F4-9 as mentioned. I had my metering set on Center-weighted. Should it have be spot or just increase the exposer to keep the head from missing so much information and whatever happens to the clouds just happens?


It's my first time doing flying birds ( crappy day for most anything else)and was just trying to see if it was possible for me. Didn't realize it was the worst time ever to do it Not just the rain and clouds, but every third shot had them pooping. Thought it was dust on my lens until I blew it up. I've never heard of Mr. Morris or Mr. Murphy, but I guess I need to.


Thanks again folks for your input!