"John H" wrote in message
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...besides the exercise and learning to cope with frustration.

These are from my local course, about a mile away.


Very nice photos, John. When looking at the EXIF data, I noticed that all
these photos were shot at ISO 1250. It's possible that Opanda is not
interpreting those values correctly, but if it is, that is an unnecessarily
high ISO value for shooting on a bright sunny day. It just invites unwanted
noise and other issues for no good reason. You were shooting in shutter
priority mode, so the high ISO setting caused the lens to stop down to as
small as f18. A lower ISO setting would have forced the aperture to open a
bit wider. I would suggest reviewing the ISO setting on your D200. It's
possible you set it to 1250 for a good reason some time ago but forgot to
reset it. My recommendation would be to set the ISO to the base level of
100 and then turn auto ISO on with an appropriate minimum shutter speed and
let the ISO float to whatever value is required for proper exposure. I
would have shot these in aperture priority mode, f8, auto ISO with a minimum
shutter speed of 1/30 second using VR. Nice composition, nuts-on exposure
and great color on these.

Russ