I took a series of shots last night and not one of them turned out. I had to do some MAJOR tweaking in PhotoShop last night to get it too look like this :

The series turned out like this. All of them washed out, faded, absolutely ZERO life to them! And I am not quite sure what went wrong. I had the camera set to fast action/kids shot, optional flash (the flash did not go off) it was about an hour to sunset and the sun, what was left of it was to my back.




I thought fleetingly about going to the other side of the kids to take pictures, but the sun was still above the house to the back of me, and going around them meant a long walk across the deck, down the stairs and over to the sidewalk becuase my dad is pretty anal about his flowers LOLz.

So. Was there a better setting for me to use? I find that at the beach I also get washed out pictures. Should I be going into manual and playing with the wee buttons? Cus those confuse the crap out of me.