Red Roses in photos

Latter I would like you to help me too Simon, as I take all my photos on automatic as well.

Hi O, I can hear your frustration in trying to get a perfect picture. I had a similar problem with my point and shoot. My problem was I could not get any detail into my red roses. They were just a red blur. White ones were difficult too.
So I saved up and bought a digital slr that takes RAW photos as well as jpgs Now I have a lot of fun when I put them into the puter because the editing software that came with the camera lets me fix every problem except poor focus. If the photo is too dark or light I can fix it by sliding a bar.I can changes colours from strong to weak and weak to strong. I can strengthen or weaken the contrast and on and on...
It was a great investment because I love to photograph flowers more than anything else (including people! ) and now I have a camera that will do all I want.

I think I'll end up doing that Dee, my camera is great but the reds just don't work. I've tried several different programmes to see if I could improve it but they all do everything but that. I recently downloaded a new one, Picasa 3 for mac, which is still in its early stages but is wonderful to use. Still no red joy though.
Val

you have to also aware that photographing in shade will give blue hues due to the light spectrum, as with photographing in the morning or late afternoon , you will get warmer tones of orange, its like photographing under tungsten light, it looks like white light but, when photograph anything they have a yellow/ orange hue.