Wow! My first question to post here, and what a great group of replies! Yes, when comparing the neohew's canon pix to my Nikon, taken at the same place and time, mine were definitely more in the bluer range. Now I have a lot of great suggestions to try. I went to the white balance and changed the point to several different values and sat here at the inlet and took a series of pix over the water. It is one of those days when the water and sky are very similar colors, and that is shades of gray. Good way to see the different color casts as I make the changes. Am hoping to have a sunset in the next few days to try things out! I do pretty good with composition but I am dead in the water with all these tweaks you make! Slowly learning!

I recently got a Nikon 5200, and am a novice with a SLR. I am frequently disappointed in the colors in the pix, particularly with sunset/rise. I am unsure what I am missing with settings to give true colors. I am mostly shooting in "fine" setting, and have used the automatic sunset setting, the automatic setting, the program setting, the aperture priority. So. My nephew's canon...admittedly a more expensive camera and glass, has way better color saturation. He recommended I try shooting in RAW. Any other thoughts? I have even wondered if something is not right with the camera besides operator inexperience.

I email pix back and forth between iPad and laptop. Select the ones you really want to edit and email to yourself and download to the computer memory from there. And then, when edited, I email to self and then open in pad and post to fb. It also forces me to be selective.....

Sorry...forme, that was # 4. Think the prob was with the reader, not the poster.....

I have been reading forum for a couple months, and decided to join so I could ask questions! I am from Ohio, all-but-retired and getting back into SLR after having a film SLR many years ago. I am hoping it is like riding a bicycle...it will all come back! :roll: