Rod Herdman

More great pics Dan. Good to see the local people, they are what make a place what is is. Having said that, I think #6 is my fave. Cheers, Rod

That is nice. Somehow I don't think my kids will pick up my camera :-(

That is great to catch at the instant of lift-off, and looks bang in focus too. Well done.

Wow, beautiful colours! I was lucky to catch one in Italy a few years back - larger but not so colourful. This was taken with K5ii-s and kit 50-200 lens. Shutter speed was 1/2000 but still you can ...

Nice shots. I also tend to use a polarzer when shooting waterfalls. Whats interesting is not the reduction of glare from the water, but also off the rocks on the right side. Do you have Q-S1 shots ...

I would be more than happy with any of those !

Fantastic :-)

wow, looking forward to seeing more of these!

Very nice Holger. If you want to pixel-peep there is an obvious sharpening halo around the whole bird, but at less than 100% this isn't really very noticeable. I would be happy to get a shot like ...

Hi again So Mike was the only one to have a crack at this for me. Here's his result from a quick PP, without going into layers etc in PS. His image brought out more detail but I thought it was a ...

Correct. In M mode, when the green button is pressed, the aperture is stopped down. In Av mode, it isn't, and the aperture isn't shut when you take the photo either - so you can take photos using ...

Fantastic !

Correct. Set aperture on lens first. When you press the green button, the camera will stop down the lens to the aperture you have set, meter the scene, set the appropriate shutter speed and then ...

If they are non-auto lenses as Holger describes, you need to use the M setting. Set the aperture on the lens, then press the green button and the camera will set the shutter speed. But, you also ...

Impressive ! Pentax AF any good ? ;-)

Beautiful. I was expecting a bird . . Looks slightly underexposed to me ?