Critique these, help me get better!

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jcski25

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So I have been doing photography for almost a year now I havnt taken any classes (I really want to though). Please tell me what you think of these photos and what could be better so I can get better!

Also if you guys have taken classes has it helped you and what did it help you with?

Thanks A lot guys now critique away!!

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not too bad i guess, but i'll give you a pointer

go easy on the post processing. for the most part, when you process a photo you want to do it so you can't really even notice its been altered, unless put side by side. for example in the photo with the ute i can tell you've just gone ahead and flung the saturation slider up. take a look at some post tutorials!

minus the over saturation, the ute photo has been captured very nicely.
 
I don't like giving harsh critique but the island/sky/water pictures are imo utterly boring 'snapshots'.

The composition is off, the horizon is crooked, and the lack of rule of thirds becomes much more apparent when you have such a level and distinct horizon. I'm also wondering what the subject is? If it's the island t's just a black blob in the distance because the picture is underexposed.

The truck is a nice capture but you seem to have cranked up the saturation to Ken Rockwellish figures.

I'm not trying to put you off photography but I advise you to read some tutorials, try to replicate what they do.

Here are a few:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/ebooklets/e_ultimate_photo_guide.pdf

http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/photo-tips/

http://strobist.blogspot.nl/2006/03/lighting-101.html

http://www.cambridgeincolour.com/tutorials.htm

http://www.worth1000.com/tutorials/161642/theory-breaking-the-rules

http://photoinf.com/

http://digital-photography-school.com/

http://www.thephotoargus.com/
 
Not at all man! I'm here to learn, I just need people to critique my stuff to so i know what im doing wrong and I can fix it! I have never had a class or anything just YouTube videos so I am not really sure if what im doing is correct or not, haha but ill take a look at those tutorials thanks!
 
So on the after processing such as in Photoshop do you even use it? or would you recommend using something like Lightroom? or just nothing at all?
 
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