Seeking photography advice!!

[BC_MoM]

It's not the flash.

It's exposure. Try decreasing your exposure length.

[BOBS DAD]

The Kodak EasyShare line of cameras are not bad cameras. I don't know the C340's specifics off hand, but I have seen some decent photography from them. I will look up for you... but in the meantime, I imagine that like most digital point and shoots, you have some default settings - MANUAL is usually best until you learn how to adjust your settings in various other modes. This appears to be an outside shot, so there will likely be no flash required. It "is" an overexposure issue that is resulting with your white balance concentrated within the center spot of your subject crop (you might want to open up your aperature and white balance settings to monitor and average a larger area of the image format) - the black dog (you can see that the black dog is balanced for white by overal lightness and tonality of it's coat). Consequently, your lightest lights are being blown out. Give us a little bit more info on the settings you are using and wse will be better able to assist you!!!

[CaliGirl]

Lol, DARN! The person above me got to it first!

On most digital cameras there should be indoor, outdoor, night, and ect. settings. Try trying each one out until you find one that fits for your dark dog against light backgrounds.. Try turning the AUTO flash setting on.. that's what works for me the best because my camera will automatically detect how much light is in the room/outside and adjust the flash brightness, or no flash, to it.

[BOBS DAD]

I looked at your thread and YEAH, I definitely think you have a white balance issue. The whitest white is keying off the center of your subject area and not taking the whole photo into account. Your dog is black and the tones within him, under normal balance settings would be rather dark. But yours is open with alot of detail (too much). If you think about a tonal curve in simplistic terms if an area that should have a setting of say 50 (just an arbitrary number) gets a reassignment of 30 (again, just a made up number - no real relevance to your camera or digital imagery), then what was originally a 20 becomes a 0 (nothing). If your dog was black in the darker tones that would be expected, then there would room on the curve to hold areas of lighter tonality. Does this make any sense to you??? Sorry if I not explaining well!!!

[Sonia59]

It's overexposed, but Jack is very cute!

[cloverfdx]

What BOBSDAD said . I had a whole post typed up at work today, boss walked in i panicked and quickly closed the browser lol.