Trying to take good quality pictures, someone could let me know my mistake? Thanks

 

Lighting. It's key in photos

 

Maybe your black is too shiny and causing a glare on a bright overcast day? Not sure if that's a bad thing tho.

BTW - Did you Plastidip your emblems?

 

1) What kinda camera?
2) It looks like there was high humidity, and there might have been a slight fog on the lens in some of the shots - very true if you just took the camera from inside.
3)There is wayy to much light in some of the pictures. depending on camera settings, play with the "auto/outdoors/highlight" settings, and your position relative to the sun.
4) you can use a photo app to adjust the image and lighting balance after the fact.(google picasa, iphoto, etc)

 

Lighting has alot to do with it

 

Check your white balance. The best way to get good lighting on a bright day is a fast shutter or fstop. Try taking your pics at dusk with a slow shutter...F20 or so...and use a tripod. That's a good way to get great results. See mine nothing fancy just sitting in the driveway but a good angle and good lighting are the keys to great pics.

 

Truth about light. Makes all the diferance

 

To correct a comment above, f20 is an aperture size, not a shutter speed.

Imo, the white balance looks good, if you're new to this sort of thing leave white balance on auto. I think the problem is the ISO being too high. On a day like that set it to 100 or 200 and leave it. Looks like the pics were taken on ISO 800 or higher.

I agree with the comments about lighting, but if you're taking pics in the middle of the day, a cloudy day is better than a sunny day. Dusk and dawn are the best times.

For a good picture, I recommend setting your ISO to 100 and putting the camera in aperture priority mode (Av on Canons). By doing this, the camera will adjust the shutter speed for you automatically while you try different apertures. Dial in the aperture till you get an evenly exposed pic without handshake (or use a tripod).

If you're using a point and click camera, dial down the ISO to 100 and set it to landscape or cloudy mode (anything but night mode).

 

There's some good and not so good advice in here.

Looks like your camera metered for the truck (dark) and set the shutter speed too slow for the light available, which is why the sky is blown out. Also, in the first pic, using the EXIF data the aperture is a bit too big (2.8) which does not give you much depth of field (whats in focus).

I see you have a Canon PowerShot ELPH 100 HS. Take it for what its worth, its a point and shoot, not a professional DSLR. What I mean, is be realistic with what you expect to get out of it. The pics you posted def. have issues as I outlined above, but its still a point and shoot.

Best advice is to read the manual, especially the section on metering, this will help you get the best exposure. Once you have a good grasp on some of the vocabulary and functions of the camera play around with the creative modes which is where you will get your best results.

Pretty soon you'll be like me and have a small fortune tied up in camera gear!

 

Even with the ELPH 100HS you can get quality photos but you have to understand the exposure and what your camera is trying to do. If this would have been a silver or white truck then things would have turned out much better but as BucketMan said your camera is trying to meter the Dark (black truck) and the light (bright sky and water) and there is no way you can get that right on an auto setting. As mentioned the best time to take pictures is in the morning about 1-2 hours after sunrise, in the evening about 1-2 hours before sunset, and on overcast days. The bright harsh light is often very unkind. Moving to Av mode and moving to a smaller aperture such as f8 or f11 you will find that it will allow you to have much more of your photo in focus (depth of field) the camera will adjust your shutter speed for you which will be slower and if it gets down under 1/60th you may need a tripod so be aware. Also try backing up several feet and zooming in a little so you don't get the fisheye look toward the edges which will happen sometimes on wide angle shots.

One last piece of advice is run your photos through Picasa and if nothing else auto correct the color and exposure. Nice photos are often not so great looking until they have been processed.

Hope this helps and very nice truck BTW.