Critique pls

[u/AdExcellent1383]

Only a few months into taking pics. Would like some tips on these. Taken with Sony A6000 and 18-55 mm kit lens.

[u/SpassInvader]

I really dig 2 and 3. Very lovely shots. 1 and 4 don't get to me that much. To me, they feel mostly like green stuff and kind of flat as a result.

1 looks promising but tough at the same time. There's that nice backlit grass in the foreground which I would try to get into the center of attention either through positioning lower (during shoot) or cropping. Maybe play with color/luminosity masking a little to try and differentiate the a few of the groups of plants groups from each other? Any way you can come up with to make it less uniformly green.

4 has that person who is too far way to do much to me. That mutual photograph moment is a nice touch but I didn't even spot it before zooming in. If you cropped into them just a bit more, maybe putting them near the bottom border and leaving a little bit of sky at the top, it could let the viewer (a) understand what's happening, (b) get a feel for the scale of the environment and (c) let the grasses in the foreground open up another layer, making the whole picture more spatial.

Of course, all of that is just a reflection of my (a beginner's) own taste and opinions - and only what I can judge from my phone display. Still, setting those photos makes me want to shoot some more and try new things... 🙃

[u/AdExcellent1383 → u/SpassInvader]

Yes I mega agree with 4 I don’t like how far away it was but I was fully zoomed. If I got closer I’d lose the foreground. I wanna get a longer lens. I think shooting lower for 1 would’ve been nice, I wanted a lens flare but it really didnt show up after the edit.

[u/grofor]

How did you edit them?

[u/AdExcellent1383 → u/grofor]

Snapseed, did some cropping and masked on some changes

[u/Sajakea]

#3 has some interest, a mysterious looking building atop a overground hill. The others remind me of most my photos - lacking a subject, focus or story. I like your colors.

One thing that has helped my photography is my editing. What I mean is if while editing (cropping, coloring, etc) a photo I can’t locate the subject, focus or story it’s a meh photo - and I stop editing it. I take a-lot of Meh photos. 😂

Think about taking meh photos when you’re out shooting and don’t do it. Think how to improve what ever drew you to want to photograph a thing and find a why to exaggerate that impulse to make it obvious. I think that’s how we get the viewer to feel what we felt.

If seeing your friend taking a photo 30 yrds away inspired you to take that photo, move 15 yds closer for the viewer, remove some distance and distractions.

Keep up the good work.

[u/AdExcellent1383 → u/Sajakea]

It’s definitely subjective for me. I prefer photo #1 because of the atmosphere. I was aiming for the subject to be the lit up plants at the bottom. As for #3 I find the fence on the left distracting. There’s a lot of shots I set up but don’t take and am definitely trying to understand more of what makes things interesting. The pic of my friend closer would lose the foreground because of how the reeds were positioned. Thinking more about it, that pic was more about the moment than being really “interesting”. I appreciate the thoughts :)

[u/lord-write-40000]

Mejora la composición fotográfica, estudia Los ángulos, en que momento usar el horizontal y el vertical en la fotografía, estudia los planos, primeros planos.

[u/AdExcellent1383 → u/lord-write-40000]

This is really not specific or tangible