[silversnapper1]

Hi Gary,

I picked up from your early posts that you were fairly new to photography so I have tried to be as helpful as I can. Your posts have been very helpful as you have stated what you were trying to achieve and this always helps when giving critique. I was unaware of the aperture values of your cameras but due to the different sizes of the sensors they may well be not too far apart from a full dslr in relative terms.

It's great to have a camera with you at all times. I have just bought a compact to back my dslr up whenever I am not carrying it. Yes, now that you have the bug you will see all sorts of things that you never noticed before.

I don't use f22 very much and you will probably find that is well past the sweet spot of most lenses. f11 to f16 are good for landscape shots and f22 is good for night shots to make street lights look like stars.

You seem to have a good eye for a picture and I think that the more that you get into it, the more you will learn and improve. Try focussing at a spot about one third of the way into your pictures and recompose to get the best depth of field. This will hopefully improve the sharpness throughout.

You are right about the pictures on the forum. There are some truly great ones here. I look forward to seeing your improved shots.