Welcome to Day 322 of the Daily Challenge!

Today we are saying 'goodbye' to beautiful Fall and 'hello' to Winter. Share with us your favorite Fall and beginning Winter photos. I realize that for many of you, Fall is long gone and some of you have been experiencing Winter for several weeks. In Georgia, USA, we just experienced our peak fall colors last week and our temperatures are still fairly mild.

For those of you around the globe, share with us what your area is like in the month of November! Remember, 'red' is our wild card and always welcome!

Hi I haven't yet worked out how to post photos here or I would upload a couple to show you the difference I got with different settings. (would love some instructions here from someone on uploading pics.)

Recently took some photos of a campfire. Not knowing what I was doing - first settings were
ISO 100 35mm f5 1/25sec
ISO 100 50mm f5 1/50sec
these two were just of the fire and I thought they were nice and bright with a black background.

ISO 100 20mm f5 1 sec. This had people sitting around fire and they had a nice glow, were recognizable and the fire was good but speed was too slow so all a bit blurred.

Then after some instruction from a friend I took a couple more and what a difference.

ISO 800 40mm f4.5 1/500sec
ISO 800 28mm f4 1/400sec

You need the faster speed, it freezes the flames and looks fantastic, nice and sharp. So set your ISO and f stop to get the faster speed for sharpness.

Of course it all depends on what you want in the picture, how much detail of the grandchildren you wish to see.

My lens is 18-200 Canon

Sorry for the delay in making my comments on this series of 3 photos. I especially like this last one best. Yes, the highlights are somewhat burned out, but you're dealing with an extremely high contrast range. The only way to avoid the blow-out would have been to underexpose, and I like the density of the rest of the scene just the way it is. What appeals to me most are the complimentary colors (yellow lights and dark blue sky).

This is probably caused by the low light infra red emission from the camera to aid in auto-focus. Try going to your cameras menus choices and turning this feature off and try again.

. . . and latching on to someone else's thread is usually not the best thing to do since most of the time it will result in no answers. It's just as easy to start a new thread of your own and you will probably get better results. In your case you could post a new thread in the Photo Analysis section with your image and get some really good feed back. Some other members may chime in and add to, or rebuff, my feed back.