well so far i havent had any memory issues.... probably due to the fact i have a 2gb memory card

 

A new set of poor quality pictures

 

Along with using higher resolution also always use your flash. Look for a fill flash setting. This is a softer diffused or broader flash to fill in shadows and reduce glare. In hard sunlight you arent actually adding light to the image you are pushing light away from the lens with light for deep rich colors, and nice crisp smooth lines.

Try to take pictures later in the day, close to dusk or first thing in the morning right at dawn. A slight overcast day is nice too, with a thin even cloud canaopy to diffuse the sunlight. Put the sun to your back. Watch that you dont get your shadow nor reflection is in the pic. Avoid the sun being behind trees casting shadows of the branches on the truck. You want a smooth even light to showcase the paint and surfaces.

I'm not familiar with Olympus, so I'm assuming this is a P&S camera.....So use those tips, then leave everything else on the camera set to auto. Then just P&S.

 

What you have here is a very high contrast scene going from one extreme to the other. Take everything that Matt said and live by it. I will add one more thing here that completely ruined this shot. Look at the whole picture before you take the shot. The truck is just a small part of it. This shot could have been saved if you had moved the truck to the left about 20 feet. Look at the buildings in the background. See the white one? That is the biggest mistake in the shot. Had it been a cloudy day this would not have been as big an issue. That bright sun was reflecting off the building and right back in your lens.

Megapixles are not the answer here. My daughter has a 1.3MP camera that takes very good pictures if used properly. They just don't have the goods for large prints. Files coming out of my camera range from 15MB to 16MB and I can easily make crappy photos like this if I don't know what to look for in the shot.

Now take all this new info and go reshoot your truck as instructed. After you are done you can sit back with a and post the great results.

 

I agree, more megapixels (IE bigger camera) wont help here anyway. But when you do get another camera.... I've said it 100 times and I'll say it again. DO NOT get caught in the Mega Pixel marketing net.

I wont punish this thread by posting the pic but here is a link....

http://www.pss-mag.com/misc/DSC00010.JPG

That image is only 3.2 megapixels.