Congratulations NM, very good choice :twobeers:
I like the images
Also I like that you are not use the program Auto in the camera ;)
Are you going to shoot in NEF? I hope that it is the case.
You will have heaps of more control and be able to correct many images that will be impossible to rescue them if they are on jpg.
Now get Nikon Capture NX2, it have the advanyage over Adobe Camera Raw that reads the setting on the camera.
The colors are perfect and you will never look back
ACR discard them.
After do the necessary adjustments witn NX then save the image in tiff and if you wish work on Photoshop ;)
If you have Photoshop just try the follow:
Open your first image go to Adjustments/Curves and select linear contrast.
Use the default settings and click Ok. You will see a very good improvement.
Another tip is after working on Adobe RGB always save the images in sRGB profile for the web, The colors have more punch
