Ooooh, I'm definitely going to try this out! Thanks ! But what if I come across a situation where I need a wider aperture to let more light in?

use a tripod

In most cases you will need around F/11 or F/8 and do not use your sigma at 10mm or 20mm, use it at 11-12mm, it is sharper that way.

Okay that makes sense. Cool, thanks for the tip for some reason this opened my eyes a bit. So if I choose another lens is it still wise to use an aperture of 11-22? Or does it depend on the lens?

Depends on lens.
Anyway f11 is usually fine.
Watch out for diffraction when shooting f16+

What in the world is diffraction? Google gives me a bunch of odd pictures...

This post was edited by Chantal7 on Mar 10 2011 08:17pm

Beautiful. Very nice pictures! Would love to go there and take some.

Thank you!

It's got to do with light. When you close down your lens (aperture), the hole which lets the light in gets so small that it starts bouncing around everywhere, thus creating distortions.

it reminds me of like, something of a battle field that would be held in a movie or something,, where abouts in b.c is this i definetly gota check it out

It's on an island called "Hornby Island" - you'll first have to take a ferry from Vancouver to Nanaimo then drive to Courtenay, then you'll have to catch two ferries to get to Hornby Island. It's a nature walk that we went on, so you'll have to look for that.