If you and I are talking about the same thing (and I think we are) that is exactly what I found after playing around this evening for a little while.

My camera doesn't have the kinds of settings I had hoped it did. When I put it in Manual mode There's no F-stop setting, no RAW mode, and something called "Exposure Compensation" (which seems to work something like shutter speed) its measured in increments of + or - 1/3. It does have an option to manually set the white balance, which worked well.

Here's how I did




the rest are in this album and all in hi-res http://picasaweb.google.com/alario/S...eat=directlink

They're an improvement over what I usually produce, I'll say that much. Some of these seem a little underexposed, but the versions I took with the "Exposure Compensation" set to 0 were definitely overexposed.

What I really like is that its the first time I've been able to accurately capture the color of this bike.

I'm gonna see if I can improve it with GIMP any.
Thanks again for all the help, I can see improvement already