Good tips. I like the bracketed exposure idea. Never done it. A photo
shoot out there would be a
blast. I'm thinking of going on one, even if I have to fly there and back.
Shoot, it might make a
nice motorcycle trip.

Your D200 has an auto-bracketing feature that makes bracketing unbelievably
easy. You tell it how many exposures you would like to take (3,5,7 or 9),
how far apart the exposures should be (.3, .7 or a full stop), then hold
down the shutter. The camera will fire the shutter the requested number of
times and then stop. You don't even have to count. I always bracket at
least three exposures, one stop apart, more exposures if the dynamic range
of the scene is high. I do this for two reasons. First, as good as the
meters are in modern cameras, they don't always get it right. Having three
or more exposures a stop apart lets me choose which exposure is the best to
use in post production. Second, if a single exposure won't yield good
results due to high dynamic range, having a bracketed set of exposures
allows me to merge then in an HDR program, often time producing a result
that is superior to what could be accomplished using s single exposure.
This approach would have been prohibitively expensive using film, but pixels
as free. The only cost is the extra time required to sort through all the
exposures in post production. I'd rather sort these out at the comfort of
my desk at home using a large monitor than to try and determine optimal
exposure using a LCD screen on the camera in bright sunlight.

Russ