Lilly,

#4 I agree is the best. I really like #1 as well for the expression and the lighting.

As usual, your treatment of colour is first rate.

I must say this is far, far from your usual specialty, but you've done an amazing job!

So, not looking for a career as a baby photog?

We have a pro at the shopping center where I work who specializes in kids. She does brilliant work.

I've watched her age considerably in the past few years.

I'm too old already. And I came by my age honestly - booze and drugs.



Cheers

Compilments of the Season, Roscoe!

Well worth the wait, Steve.

1 & 3 for me.

Great sense of depth in #1.

'Course, I'm from frosty Quebec, so #3 is kinda special.

Cheers

Geeezzzeee, Nathan!

My head hurts when I try to read my lowly K110D manual!

What are you trying to do - kill me!?!



Ow!

I've printed it off to hand out to some 10 year olds - I'll get back to you........

Mark!

Way to GO!

And welcome! Tell us where you're from, please.

Enjoy your lens and post some shots.

But then again, reading manuals is obviously a pastime for the selected few. [/quote]Yes, and thank goodness there are more than a few of the selected few on this forum!

I've read my K110D manual from cover to cover at least twice. But it takes more than just reading for me. It often takes folk like yourself who actually understand these manuals to paraphrase the contents and apply them to specific cases.

I for one, am very familiar with basic, fully manual gear, but very often am flummoxed by the onboard softeware of digital equipment - especially regarding multiple uses of some buttons.

So, I will continue to ask the dumb questions, and I hope others will as well. You have no idea how many people you help when you answer.

Again, I thank you all.

Excellent advice in this thread.

I put my much loved SMC 1:4.5 Zoom 80-200 M lens on my K110D, set selector to M, Aperture Ring enabled in menu, set lens to f16 (for test), focused, half pressed shutter, pressed AE-L, heard and saw light reading register, completed shutter press, enjoyed result. (You can't believe how much!)

Again, I must thank you all! A wonderful lens which had been retired to the film ranks is now being enjoyed as a 120 - 300mm digital optic.

Man, I love this forum!

Now, that miner's lamp shows me that your lens has an 18 leaf iris?

This lens must have amazing bokeh?

All your attempts to get it right really paid off!

Steve,

You've done a great job on the even lighting.

Great subject!

More, please.

And all thanks to my good friend, Pete!

I owe ya, Buddy!