First Post & First Cook

[HighOnSmoke]

Beauty of a bird there!…Tellus about your camera, and your picture posting "method" - i.e., which hosting service are you using?

Thank you sir.

The camera is a Nikon D7000 and thousands more in lenses.  These were taken using the Nikon 16-85 lens.  The pictures are in "Photobucket".  I am still trying to figure out the posting method as I just joined photobucket last week and this is only the second time I tried this.  I was hoping I would not "bomb-out" the whole process.  In other words, I have no idea what the heck I am doing as far as getting the pictures on these post, lol.

I tried that Photobucket app installed on this forum but have not quite figured out just how that works.  This time I just used some process in photobucket that generated a list of URL's of the photos I selected.  Then I pasted those URL's into the post.  Then highlighted each URL and hit that "Insert Image" icon on the post menu bar.  That put those codes at each end of the URL, I had to do that for each URL one at a time. The picture posting is still a work in progress for me at this point.

Do you think the pictures are too large?  I did reduce them quit a bit from their original size.  What do you think??

Nick you have an excellent camera! That is what I use plus the big bucks in lenses.  I either use my 17-70 or 40mm macro for food
cooks.  I use photobucket and have never had any problems.  I usually resize my photos on Picasa before uploading to photobucket.
I size them either 800x600 or 640x480, but tee will have to answer about the max size for this board.

Mike

[mr breeze]

Gosh that's a nice looking bird! Good for you.

Thanks you sir...  You are too kind.

[hikerman]

First off Nick.....my dad was sir. You can call me anything but late for dinner!  lol

Glad you have a ring for TBE. I use wood in mine all the time. It's not the same as smoking, but adds a real nice flavor.

Oh by the way, glad your here, good group of folks on this site, we ask and learn from each other. It's all about caring and sharing!
Enjoy my friend!

[mr breeze]

First off Nick.....my dad was sir. You can call me anything but late for dinner!  lol

Glad you have a ring for TBE. I use wood in mine all the time. It's not the same as smoking, but adds a real nice flavor.

Oh by the way, glad your here, good group of folks on this site, we ask and learn from each other. It's all about caring and sharing!
Enjoy my friend!

Okay, good enough.  Sometimes I can't get that protocol out of me, I just naturally say that, it freaks out the teenagers around here too, lol.

Everyone here can just "call me the breeze",  lol...

[Smokin Don]

Great looking Turkey!!! A nice first post & photos. I would say one of the nicest looking birds I have seen done on the Big Easy!!! Don

[Old Hickory]

Great job on that bird and your photo's are super.

[smoker pete]

Great looking Bird Nick 

Here's a little info on how to use Photobucket:

First I use "Microsoft Office Picture Manager" or your favorite program (Photoshop, etc) to resize the photo.  I like to use 800x600 pixels.  Create appropriate folder on Photobucket and then upload the photos to Photobucket.



To post a photo in the forum just roll over the photo and you'll see the icon in the upper right end corner



Roll over the icon and you see a menu of options.  Click on "Get Links"



Use 1 of the 2 "IMG" options for most forums ... IMG codes and/or IMG thumb



Copy/Paste the "IMG Thumb" and it shows a thumbnail view of the photo.  When you click on the photo it shows the full photo view



Copy/Paste the "IMG codes (for forums, boards)" will show the full photo view

[mr breeze]

Great looking Turkey!!! A nice first post & photos. I would say one of the nicest looking birds I have seen done on the Big Easy!!! Don

Thank you Don, you are too kind.  But I can't take "Turkey-Cook" credit for that one.  Its actually a baby turkey - a 5.5 pound chicken  .  But I understand your point and I thank you for your acknowledgment that it at least looks nice, no matter what is... 

[mr breeze]

Great looking Bird Nick 

Here's a little info on how to use Photobucket:.......

Thanks a million Pet.  That is what I needed to know.  I will use that method from now on.

Thanks,
-Nick

[muebe]

Fine looking bird Breeze!

The BE makes a great yardbird

[pz]

That bird looks just about perfect, Nick.  I'm doing a turkey for the first time tomorrow on the SRG, and like you, started with a chicken.  Some say it is difficult to mess up a cook on the SRG, but I'm usually fairly good at "whatever can go wrong, will go wrong" 

Fortunately it is only me and my sweetie, with the possibility of one of our kids later in the day   

[TwoPockets]

Nice looking bird. I bought TBE after I nearly burned my house down frying a turkey one Christmas. Just want to let you know that TBE is a great cooker for other things. I have done turkeys, chickens, chicken wings and legs (order some leg racks from Char-Broil), Boston butts, and about a month ago I did the best standing rib roast I have ever tasted. My wife doesn't want baked potatoes cooked any other way than in TBE. The racks will be a great investment since you can move your food higher up in the basket where it will cook faster.

[RAD]

Good looing bird and I also love my BE.

[Savannahsmoker]

Man that bird is one right.