It's good to play with the settings on a camera you will soon learn what you prefer to use.
OK piccie no1:
Sharp and well exposed <always a good start
> Beware of strange angles. I am guessing you took the picture standing to the left of the fire and stood up, hence the angles of the chimnea look 'wrong'. That can be used to your advantage in certain situations. In this case it looks a bit weird with the rigid pattern of the brickwork off camber.
Piccie 3
Yeah well so it's a foggy day. If it were possible to do so i would of taken the photo a bit further back and included some more of the branch in the top left. When photographing landscapes it's always good to try and get in a bit of foreground interest to draw the eye into the picture. Otherwise it can look a bit flat and two dimentional.
Piccie 4 looks a bit blured. On a dull day shutter speeds will lengthen so holding a camera steady is a must. Either use things to hand to hold the camera steady (in this case the car window) or a tripod or wall.
Failing that if your camera will allow it use a higher ASA/ISO rating that will increase the shutter speeds, be careful not to push it too far or you will get 'noise' which means it can look like there is dust on the lens and picture quality will drop off.
Piccie 5...if your intention was to get the tower in focus the camera didn't know it
. It has focused on the first thing it has come accross <in this case the fence>. Compensate for that by continuing to press your focus button <normaly the shutter release> until the focusing brackets look like they are resting in the area you want in focus. Failing that if you have a AE lock button (exposure/focus lock) get the fence out of the way <lift the camera up whatever> focus on the tower, press and hold the AE button then reframe the shot and take as normal.
Overall a good start
you are actually taking photo's which is always the battle. The more you take the better you get and the more knowledge you pick up.
A friend of mine used to say of my work "that was a lucky shot"
to which i replied...
"yes isn't it strange, the more shots i take, the luckier i get"
(and yes i know that has benn used in almost all walks of life but he was a bit dense
)
Keep it up mate, i look forward to seeing some more soon
