No it doesn't I-berg but still thanks, I was hoping you could set the aperture on a set value in manual mode so that it would bracket with shutter-speed only, I was pretty sure you could do that somehow...

I bought a Westcott Apollo softbox so will let you know what I find.

I at least bought it over the Creative light system because of money, more even light and probably it will be more light efficient.

Doug, sorry

It was a reaction of the two above that comment HG and Matt, they are talking that you can do a lot with photoshop to save a photo but it's very limited and my humble opinion is that photo-shopping can add flair to your photo and is not something you should ignore.
How many great fine art photographers didn't work on their photos in the darkroom, I think your list will be quite short.

Aren't we going down the wrong route...?
Photoshop has little to do with making sharp photos in my humble opinion, there is only so much you can rescue from a bad photo.

This photo is a heavily photo-shopped photo but does not fit in your description at all. link
Neither does this one with a lens flare link

Made some photos today and wanted to bracket them but I notice also the aperture change and I thought I had locked that somehow once... I can't find it in the manual so fast.
Can any one help me?

I know you can use Av and did used that but I want to use M so comments that I should use Av won't be excepted

Ron you should take a look at a Canon forum or be on flickr, I think you would see the PUF isn't that bad

Someone is selling his DA*16-50 and DA*50-135 here but I would haggle some of the price to make it intersting. link

Sounds like a good plan, i've no idea how good the Sigma is though.
The Tamron equivalent with a constant f/2.8 would be better and would be a general portrait lens.

They all say that
If it's the same as the 10-20 I don't think it will cut it

I think those would be to slow, probably the Tamron 28-75 f/2.8 or sigma 24-70mm f/2.8 might do (maybe not wide enough?) or the DA*16-50 with the DA*50-135 but sadly those are quite high in price right now.
You could also get the third party equivalent, the Tamron/Sigma 17-50mm f/2.8 with the Sigma 50-150 f/2.8.

With one of these lenses or combination you're pretty much covered for portrait shoot of various group sizes and it does not get better then f/2.8 with zooms which is fast enough most of the times.

For portable studio, for portrait you might consider going the strobist way. A collapsible background with a stand and 2 flash stands with two umbrella's and normal flashguns would get you pretty far.

I wonder how the distortions are going to be with this lens.