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Margaret: I setup my koala and New Zealand sheep mascots for a focusing experiment. I took 3 photos. This one is on Auto without moving camera.

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Margaret:This one on manual focusing.

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Margaret: Back on Auto, this time I moved the camera to put mascots in the center, half-pressed the button to lock in the focus and then moved the camera to the same shooting frame.
Q. Anyone knows how to restore eyesight back to its glory? Can I find elixir of youth (red wine is good but the picture is still blurred) ?! :-) And seriously - am I giving up too soon on manual focusing?

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Margaret:I spent a lot of time trying to get the gold fish in focus but no luck.
Q. Was it my eyes or the lens struggling with light at 300mm?

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Margaret: A bird flew into our shed and could not find the way out. I opened all doors and windows but it took some time before it flew away. In the meantime I took this as a photo opportunity and discovered that it was too dark for the auto focus to work.

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Margaret: I used manual focusing but the bird moved around. I regretted I did not have my dolphin torch. I finally managed to get some focus.
Q. How do you shoot in the dark if you cannot see what you are shooting?

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Margaret: I love "sweet" light. It happens rarely and I found out a sunrise giving better photo opportunities than a sunset. This photo was taken against rising sun. It lasted almost an hour and there was great light everywhere.
Q. Only when I checked the settings for this photo I noticed White Balance in Fluorescent. Would it have altered the natural light?

AL: You bet it would have made a difference. Wonder if you happened to shoot raw so you could change that white balance to natural in PS to see how it looks. I agree with you about the time. This past summer I always had the best sweet light very early in the mornings, around 4 to 5:30 am.

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Margaret: Another sunrise photo. The boat harbor gave opportunities for interesting shots.
Q. Is the sun OK in this photo?

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Margaret: I really like the light in this photo. The sky and the water look very nice.
Q. Again, was White Balance a contributor?

AL: Oh, I see you subsequent shots are "fluorescent" also. My favorite here is the very last shot. Your fluorescent produces difference effects than my Pentax. I don't mind the colors in your images at all. If I had taken these in fluorescent they would be toss outs unless you like weirdo colors.

The early morning sunrise on my home page at:
http://photography-classes-online.com/
(thumbnail), is an example of the sweet light you had that morning.
That is an image taken from raw, no adjustments except to reduce size.

I notice you are using a -1 exposure compensation factor. On the inside shots. Wonder why you did not use that on the outside sunrise images. Try this sometime, and also try the shade setting at the same time on a sunset or sunrise and see how that works with your cameral.