Here's a little trick for situations like this, Cal: set your camera's flash to "use all the time" (or equivalent), then center the horizon to make camera set itself for the sunset (instead of the foreground), press the release halfway to lock setting, then move it down to the foreground and take shot. It should turn out a nice sunset, plus light up the truck (which would be little more than a silhouette otherwise). That's why the sunset looks washed out--the camera was doing what it's programmed to do, trying to reproduce the area nearest the center, which in this case is the well-defined front fender of your truck--it set itself for the dark foreground, causing the skyline to be over-exposed. It's still a nice shot, though! Silhouetting your vehicle at the top of a rise during a sunset is another neat-looking composition--you get the beauty of a sunset, with only the beefy outline of the truck set against it. Just ideas to play with. You have a good eye for composition--it's just tough getting the lighting right sometimes.
Thanks for the comments and thanks for the advice Bob I'll give that a try...Now I'll have to edit the caption to say "it was a nice sunset but I butchered it" lol.
I don't know how much you're into photography (I'd say you like it, judging from the creativity in your framing, etc.), but I can assure you, even those of us who have taken thousands of shots rarely like everything about our own pics--out of a set of 100, I may print 3 or 4! Again, you DO have a good eye--the details will come with time.
Thanks...your right I do like photography not really as a hobby but more as a tool to document my life but that might change. I only got my first real camera (by my standards, it's not a fancy one with changeable lens or anything) a year ago so I'm still not the best with it but it's advice like yours that going to help me improve so I appreciate it.
