Hi, Zitro. Welcome to the forum- we love to have new posters and I think you would enjoy all these people who come here. Everyone is so friendly. The assignments began with the letter 'A' of the alphabet and will continue to 'Z'. After 'Z', no telling what the assignment will be. You can always post your pictures depicting the alphabet up through 'Q', which is what we are on now. Late posting is fine. We're looking forward to seeing your photos.

Ok, Kate there are several thing that play into this, but they all concern light and the amount of light that enters the sensor. Fortunately your camera allows for full manual operations. These are very basic expinations, but they should help you, If I dont expand on an area too much it is because there is a lot involved in it. You have these selections on you circular dial on the top of the camera ***Tv - Shutter Priority, this allow you to control the amount of time that shutter is open. It will adjust the Aperture accordingly to have the best Exposure Value (EV) ***Av - Aperture, ultimately it controls the Depth of Focus(DoF) for the camera. There are blades inside the lens. The lower the number the more open the blades are, shallow depth of focus. Higher the number the more closed they are, longer depth of focus. ----F/2.8----- ----F/16---- ***M - Manual, you control shutter speed and aperture at the same time. ***ISO -pg84 -this is considered the speed of the film, back in the day of course. now it is the sensitivity of light that the sensor allows. The higher the ISO the more sensitive to light it will be. However, the higher the ISO the more noise you have in the picture. P&S are notorious for this. ***Turn off the flash - it on pg42 of your manual. There is a large round button on the back of the camera and it has four ways you can push it. Push the top area will adjust the flash. Push it until you see a lightening bolt with a circle and a line through it, like the 'no smoking' signs. My Suggestion: 1)Put camera on Tv. --adjust to 1" 2)Turn off the flash 3)Put on ISO200 4)Change the drive to to 2 second timer, this way the camera shake wont effect the picture when you hit the shutter release. This should do the trick, play with the ISO and the sutter speeds to until you have you desired affect. If you have some noise in your picture, dont worry I can help you out that with wome noise reduction software. We'll touch on that later though

Fun! Love the umbrella! I'll have to look around and come up with something later......are you all going to start all over once you are finished with the alphabet? I'm getting in here late on this...but it's a great idea!

Well, a photo will follow later. I am having trouble uploading so here is the rundown on this super duper butterfly prize. First a Little Butterflies stained glass coloring book. When you color these transparent pages with whatever medium you choose they appear like stained glass when hung where sunlight reaches them. So pretty! Glitter Butterflies stickers, really special ones. Two very sophisticated coloring books: Butterfly Alphabet and Exotic Butterflies and Moths. These are wonderful. A few years ago I bought the first one for my mother and she loved it. There are so many things you could do with these. One of them I will share with Allie and Sophie. We will work on it together when they come for a visit. Thanks Shirley. It was a fantastic prize. I don't often win "stuff" but in March I won a FBS gift certificate and then this cool prize. If I had known it was my month I would have bought a lottery ticket. ;>)