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You won the prize for the wrong photo. The bird is nice, but the dancers is a much better shot. I’m digging the nice bokeh. It really makes your subjects stand out.

Thank you. I couldn't enter the dancing one without permission which I probably could have gotten but the contest never picked ones with faces. The reason I got the good bokeh is shallow depth of field at f2.8, 1/160 sec, full manual and 1/160 is pretty slow. A few that night were duds but it was more underexposure and bad noise, but I got a lot of nice ones with kids playing, never used the flash. I was wondering with that batch if I should cool down the white balance, but evidently you seem to like it the way it is. Except for unsharp mask, that one is practically right out of the camera, didn't adjust anything except resizing for the web.

Yeah, I jacked up the ISO to 3200 to get that one. Those zoomed up you will see a lot of noise, but Canons are one of the best when it comes to low noise, best not to go over ISO 1600, start to see noise at ISO 800.

I think probably all models may be better with noise by now, but point and shoot cameras were much worse, bad noise at ISO 400 and at lower ISO's in low light. I cut my teeth with a little Olympus 4000Z, and I had to use a lot of exposure compensation to get the best shots. I still use at least -2/3 exposure compensation in bright sun, but better photogs don't shoot that way. In good light I quit bothering with shutter priority mode, still don't have a good handle on full manual like the pros do.

Whatchu talkin bout, Willis? I don’t sees anyone smokin a bokeh!