dayum thanks for the critiques. I admit that I took most all the pics in AUTO mode (including white balance). I started messing with the manual controls today but still don't have a clue as to what I'm doing yet. Need to read the manual.



One thing I am having trouble with is the background getting washed out. Is there some setting I can mess with to get good foreground focus and still get the background.

I was taking some pics of my car and the background just didn't want to show. When taking pics of with tall trees the scenery behind it gets bloched out in white (second pic). examples... any advice?