Bob, that's excellent . Of course I dont mind
Love that pinkish look to it .
I got one more for you to try to enhance it, been playing with it but came out under exposed. here it is, have a go at this one please

Rob, these first ones were plain without me trying to enhance the colours, wanted to nail the bouncing drops, and then I went on to work on the coloured liquids and reflections.

I noticed also a lot of noise, I definitely need to sort out this issue of noise on all of these shots

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Could you please suggest titles for them please? . Would be nice to start naming them

Take a workload of patience, then add another pile load of hours of trials and errors, splashes and cleaning up the mess at the end of every session, various experimentations with colours and liquids, get all drenched in coloured water and frustrating hours and what do you get in the end?
Something that leave you smiling finally

After days and weeks of trials finally I can get these little beauties out precisely the way I want them .
These were all taken without any electronic aids or devices. With practise the hit rates become good and then tweaking the light angles, colours amount of splashes become easy.

C&C greatly appreciated as usual.

Thank you

Amin

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A couple more on the way

Is there something in the air today regarding this chain of thoughts? , Freaky indeed. This was the very same reason I mentioned to Danny this morning that I was going to pass by SRS. I was going to consider precisely the same option as Mike-P.

Chris, am on my way to SRS later

Mike
If you are using centre point focusing I think the same principle would apply with regard to shirts of the player or an object in the shop or even a moving player I would think.

Besides, in the shop it was not very bright and all we had were artificial light and I do remember me and Danny focusin indoors and then aiming at outdoors and then in again just to see how quickly it locked in and definitely there was a massively rapid AF locking during those moments.

Danny used the same setup for the DA*60-250 and he says was very disappointed with the hit rate. I dont think the light also would have mattered so much as the sky on these images also do not look as they were brightly lit with sunshine, even though not very cloudy I notice because I see a few shadows, but not the harsh ones.

Having said this, I might well be wrong in my assumptions. One thing is for sure, the SDM doesn't seem to be as fast as I expected, at least not with my K20

Danny
these shots are definitely great. I was really hoping that the DA*60-250 would be faster focusing, but seems its not. This is really strange because if you remember we tried it on the K7 on the open day and it seemed to be pretty fast. What has gone wrong? I haven't done any practical tests with mine on the K20D but the DA*50-135 on it is really slow at focusing. Don't even notice that much of a difference in AF speed and its a bit disappointing . Was hoping that it would be much faster with the K7

Danny

This is exactly what I miss, with regard to AF. You just described my problems when for example trying to snap moving subjects, specially coming towards me or away. I attempt focusing while my kids are running around and moving and although they are not as fast as the football players , but still can't get a good hit rate.

Seems then the Sigma 100-300 you had cut the mustard on this front. I can just about imagine someone I know driving to Aylesbury today to test that Sigma, hmmm might even drop by SRS and get it back for you on my way there . Not sure yet, still catching up with some jobs and paperwork but if I get a chance you are going to have to brew some extra coffee for a visitor

Neil, as far as I know that is the only way you can change the white balance, by pressing the Fn button and then pushing the left button from the selector to go into the selection mode.

You can make settings to fix the white balance during flash exposures etc from the "C" Users settings but that's all.

In order for you to alter the white balance by mistake you must be pressing the Fn by mistake first and then press the left menu from the selector and then going up or down with the menu selector again, and then press the OK button, all that by mistake seems unlikely.
I would keep an eye on the AWB and keep checking if its not shifted once in a while as now you are conscious of the process it takes to change it.

Danny, have you got some pics to show us for comparision?
I have never tried the DA*60-250 for action shots apart from couple of hoverflies but with flash, so am quite keen in seeing any results of action shots with it.

I think the stunning shots Mike-P has of Red Arrows were shot with the DA*60-250. They looked brilliant.