Critique and Feedback for a Newbie

So I picked up a D3100 a couple weeks ago to do filming and fell in love with taking pictures very quickly so now I am on a journey in learning that. I will be making a blog about my journey into photography but for now I want some constructive criticism on my first four pictures I have ever taken with a DSLR. So let me have it!

i would post these separate mate for feedback

I moved this since it did not fit in critique. Please read the diary post in that forum before posting there. Only one photo and give the EXIF data and what you are trying to do with the photo.

Welcome to the forum,IMO the first and last shot lack a focal point ie point of interest and as a detached viewer i cant see why you took them,the middle two have a focal point which clearly shows why you took them so both are of interest to me as images,keep practicing and i think you will develop an eye for interesting images.

I like what you did with the leaves in the 2nd shot. However the white rectangle in the top middle is a little distracting.

Welcome.
I agree with the comments made by @mikew. Keep practicing but try to decide what you want as the subject of each photo and show it in an interesting way.

Thanks for the feedback! Sorry for posting wrong to start. About my first picture, the subject is supposed to be the rope how would you have brought it out more? All I did is brighten it up in my edit.

Jeff-S said:

Thanks for the feedback! Sorry for posting wrong to start. About my first picture, the subject is supposed to be the rope how would you have brought it out more? All I did is brighten it up in my edit.

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If the shot is about the rope, it might have been better if you'd focus close on the rope and use the background as filler or blur it out. It's hard to make the rope the center of attention when using such distance. Now it's just something dangling at the side.

When trying to "create" a shot, you need to put yourself into the viewer's shoes. You know perfectly well what you try to do but anyone looking at the picture only does so when you lead their eyes towards what you have in mind. There's too little distinction in sharpness between the background and rope to make the eye lock onto it and that disrupts your intent.

Nobody can read your mind but when done correctly, everyone can follow your eye.

I did not notice the rope until you said subject is the rope. As [MENTION=31330]J-see[/MENTION] said, it needs more separation from the background, either by making it more prominent in size or blurring the background while keeping it sharp. It would be an interesting shot composed the same with the rope in tack sharp focus and the background blurred. The blue would pop a little more. Still may lose a few people, but the subject would be certain.

Middle two are pleasing. Perhaps cropping the top off #2 and maybe try a few crops on #3.

The last just seems like a missed shot.

From the leaves I want to know what part of new England are you in? My guess se mass. Your first shot lookes exaclty like one I took in my backysrd with same camera I bought 5 months aho.


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I am actually from Upstate New York in the Corning area, but these pictures were taken in Langhorne, PA near Philadelphia. Here is my new blog for my journey in learning photography. It will be updated weekly follow it please! A Journey in Photography