I would love to see a picture of your equipment case. When you go away have you a trailer for your camera gear? Astronomical photography next?
That and microscopic stuff is all that's left to do. Keep going we're loving it.

Do you do requests?
If so you can email them to me and I can pretend I took them!
Brilliant!

Great, lets see the results.
The 16-45 is highly praised, how much better is it than the 18-55?

Is it happening at all focal lengths, as I have found my K100D Super can be troublesome with shorter focal lengths

Good luck, I wouldn't sell mine!

I have hardly had it off the camera since i got it although the first one I had was faulty. If you do find what you are looking for "try before you buy" is my advice. Sigma are very helpful and can recalibrate a lens if it is giving focusing problems, however.

I think he was about 100ft away but the lens hood was 10ft from the bird

This is how it was un-fiddled with

With the third one the sun had gone behind the headland but the sky was still very bright. The shadows between the boats and the wall were quite dark so I tried to compensate. I must have overdone it. I did increase the saturation, but not by much. The bright reds were very bright anyway so they have become too bright. I liked the wide angle effect so left it, but I did tilt everything anticlockwise as the end of the wall was leaning over to the right. I liked the colour of the rope in the foreground and got that in on purpose but did not notice the scourer!

I have seen HDR mentioned a lot around the forum, but I know nothing about it, this being my 1st digital camera.

Nipped out to Wales for the afternoon. Please comment as I took thesr in RAW and had a go at a bit of fiddling with the results.









What about the scouring sponge in the last one?

No.1 for me. I like the way the sun has caught on the bolts. The footprint is OK I think, great interest was taken when a footprint on the moon was photographed. It shows someone was there!