Wow, thanks a lot for all the insights given Sean, CLS and Ben! It's very much appreciated

Needless to say I went back this evening to give it another go. But now the sun was in front of me and there was a lot less light as the sun was going down...

I tried several Av settings, even tried the Landscape setting, went back and forth several times. I got the "best" result at F/11, the camera set the ISO value to 1250 though probably resulting in the grain I'm seeing. At least the picture is a lot sharper now. Guess I need to learn to watch all settings instead of hoping the camera does the works for me

O well, back to trying and learning!

Here's my "best" shot of this setting, shame me on the high ISO setting.


LandscapeWaterDucks_0107 by Marco van Eck, on Flickr

Edit: EXIF: F/11, 1/60s, ISO 1250, 33mm focal length

I have another question though. In the shots I made now I often saw a small purple glow around the leaves at the highlights in the picture, the sky. I figure it has something to do with the sun shining on those parts in the photo's? I'm not getting what causes this as it happened at different settings.

Cheers!