on my camera (sony DSC-p100) there are 4 settings to take pictures. Within those settings, you can make modifications to lighting, exposure, focus points, sharpness, etc. Just go through the menu and screw around with stuff, figure out what each thing does, and then use it accordingly. I'm an experimental learner. I have to do something first hand to learn about it. I can read through manuals but without doing it and learning what the setting does, it will be useless information to me.

Honestly, the point and shoot is rather annoying to get the proper exposure i'm looking for, or correct focal point of the picture. Thats why i'm looing into the D-SLR. Along with a digi SLR comes along additional lenses, better zoom, manual focus, more options, and other affects (fisheye, filter, etc.).

And I think the main reason that the wheels look like 17's is there is no contrast between tire and wheel gap (it's all black in thse pictures) so it looks like all of that is tire, creating the illusion that the tires are much larger than they really are. Thats fixed by simply playing with a few more settings and lowering the car

matt