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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sl60" data-source="post: 209858" data-attributes="member: 17360">I'm an amateur with a D70S, 28-105 stock Nikon lens. I've been experimenting with taking photos of trees in the woods where there's a lot of shadow punctuated by bright spots of sunlight, and my success rate of decent photos is about 10%.On my last try, I brought along a tripod, set the aperture for f/16 and let it go with the timer (I'm lookign for some decent depth of field). Most of the photos taken this way were blurry. I also tried setting the shutter speed to 1/400 and allowing the camera to choose the aperture. These were better (more in focus), but some of the highlights were blown out and some of the shadows (which were full of reflected light) came out too dark.Any suggestions for improvement would be mostw elcomed (please, not too technical, though--I'm still a babe in the woods, so to speak).</blockquote>