>>4186438>>4186439There are my favorite ones. In terms of automating your process, for bright sunny days where I'm not shooting the sky I uses aperture priority. Since I don't care about motion blur and it's bright out the camera keeps it more than fast enough to remove any hand shake.
When it's darker out I use manual mode with auto iso. You can usually limit the iso for the auto mode so it doesn't turn into a grain fest. I probably wouldn't go over 800 for old bodies like yours.
>>4186455For this shot consider that you're basically shooting directly into the sun. Think about how much brighter the sun is than the side of the building. Such an extreme condition is making the autofocus fuck up.
If you want to make this look good the only way to do it is with a tripod. Take one shot exposed for the building, take another exposed for the sun and composite them together in editing.
>>4186444That looks like blur caused by hand motion.
Some tips
>Watch your iso. Looks like you're leaving it at 400 most of the time. For all your bright daytime pics you can probably use 100 and get a cleaner image>In the future resize your images to about 50% to post them on the web to reduce file size>Shoot in RAW and learn to edit. This is the way to extract the maximum potential from a digital camera 
