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The D40 lacks the screw that turns the autofocusing on the AF lenses. The only ones that will AF are AF-s or HSM lenses. For a lot less monies, long reach AI-s or 50 1.8 can be had for like under a hundred bucks there.
When I said light in>>87372is external flashes. If that beach is retarded and the sunset doesn't go 'into' the sea, then yes you can get some nice light with the sea as the background, but if the sunset is setting into the sea beind the model, you'd need a flash, else she'd turn into a silhoutte. Getting a flash and knowing how to operate it properly, (read up Strobist's lighting 101) would do wonders, even if you have it on cam at the onset.
The thing is light conditions change fast during the 30 minutes of the golden light, so you would need to know how to adjust everything as fast as possible, and if you're fumbling about with the flash levels, your shutter speed or aperture, you're gonna be shit out of luck, and nice pictures too. So, to save you from headache, take her to a park and shoot her there, with nice 3pm light, and from there on you are learning how to photograph HER, not how to fumble about with your camera. I found a PDF of poses running a couple of pages, but I can't find the link at the moment. I'll post it if I can find it.
Oh and if Manual focusing is anything like the D80's or any 35mm camera, you should have a yellow circle indicator that tells you that the selected AF point is in focus. If it does have that, use it. It's a life saver if you have shit eyes.
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