Before you go out and buy a book go to youtube and look up Anthony Morghanti and elements 12. After watching the set of free videos then decide if you still need a book.

I bought Lightroom 5 and a nice fat book that some said was good. It was about the size of War and Peace and was horrendously detailed. It was more of a reference book after you had your PHd but rather useless as a learning tool.

I watched all of Moragnti's LR videos(they are a numbered set broken down in to 10 to 20 minute segments on a specific feature). It was having a personal tutor in your home. You can also check out his web page http://anthonymorganti.com/ and check out his free photo critiques along with Photoshop videos. I get no kickbacks; simply want to pass on a great asset.

Lee, if you want to sell that car, you need a clean shot of the car, including removing the tree debris from the hood. If it is drivable, the first thing to do is take it someplace with a clean background and no direct sun. If all you want is the car, a north facing back of a warehouse parking lot will do. North facing means north sky light, no direct sun pretty much all day, so you should have nice long reflections but few or no hotspots. The angle is fine, a classic low, wide angle on a car that's been used to sell cars for years, but the background you have now is hugely distracting, you have bizarre reflections from windows falling on the car, and worse you have flare—honestly it's a mess right now. If you move to an uncluttered spot with a smooth background, even if there's direct sun getting into it you will get a far better result, but the best would be without direct sun.

IF the car is drivable, you could also take it to a park and shoot just after sunset. Gets the golden light and long reflections. But if the car is not drivable, then at the very least dust off the debris and don't shoot it in sunlight. :-)

This is one of my Glenshee shots that I didn't post. In fact I've not even tried to edit it (except for some cloning). At the time I thought it was too busy and not subject-oriented enough. However, I've seen what some positive input can do, so I've posted it here hoping that I'll get enough ideas to inspire me to re-work it and turn it into a keeper.

I'm therefore going to invite criticisms, suggestions and edits, to see in which direction it might best be taken.

If you are going to try an edit, you'll probably notice that if you zoom in close, the landscape's texture and colour are not the best. This is a typical example of why small sensors are not the best option on dull days (in this instance, the sensor is 1/1.7" ).

You may also find that with a lot of cropping the quality degrades a bit more than what you're used to. This is one of the down sides to having a "mere" 12Mp.

However, I'm expecting the impact of these factors to be slight. Bear in mind that this is straight-out-of-camera and the shot was taken on a gloomy day.

And if you could, bear in mind that my preference is for a natural look (as far as possible) :-) .
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