Congrats on your purchase Stu,I am sure you will soon get to grips with it and know it inside out.To be honest I know very little about any of it and there are plenty on here with far more experience than myself.As proven I can produce crap pics from time to time up with the best of them
Still getting my head around Nikon`s NEF images with regards to processing, but Iike to think I am chipping away at it slowly,since the heart attacks my thought process seems to work against me most of the time and things seem to take a lot longer to sink in so to speak.I will however say I miss the Canon glass I had previously,I just feel the 400mm was giving me much better results than the Nikon 300 which I have now.With regards to the shadows on the two eagle shots,they are pretty much as they came out of camera.