Nice pictures... no.. .AMAZING pictures!
I'm going to be going to DC in a month or so to visit my buddy Handsome_Rob and his new wife. They live on Bolling AFB (she's AF), which is only like 3-4 miles away from the National Mall. I have a decent Kodak SLR-like 5Mpix camera with 10x optical zoom. I just ordered a set of lenses and filters (wide angle, 2x tele, Polarizing filter, UV filter and Flourescent filter) to try to help get some good pictures. I want to get a lot at the National Mall, all the memorials, and hopefully the Smithsonian and other touristy stuff.
Any advise on settings for some good pictures like that? My camera can be set to full manual, and the timer is good for setting it up on a tripod and letting it shoot a pic without shaking.
I will post some pictures here (in a new thread!) when I get back. I've been really 'trigger happy' with the camera the last couple times I went out of town... two different trips, I ended up shooting over 250 pictures... each!