I am fairly new to photography and I am brand new to this sight. Any critique of my images would be welcome and tips or hints you could pass along would be great. I have uploaded a few images and I am curious if there is anything I can do or need to do to encourage or even enable voting and ranking on them.
Thanks to everyone for your help and I look forward to hearing from you.
just experiment as much as possible watch a lot of other pros on youtube and just learn as much as you can your images are a great starting point
Hi Eric! I agree with Joseph. The images you've posted so far show variety and imagination. Henri Cartier-Bresson said his first 10,000 images were his worst. Keep doing what you love, and you'll very likely get good at it.
The moderators might ban me for repetition, but one simple guide I'd give is: avoid symmetry, e.g. putting the subject dead-centre, as it tends to give a lifeless, static look. With a single person as the subject, in general they should be looking into the frame. (A close-up full-frame portrait is a different story.)
Completely symmetrical subjects, mostly buildings and other artificial objects, are exceptions, but a symmetrical image has to be precisely symmetrical to really work.
These are just generalisations, of course, but they avoid one common "snapshot-look" pitfall.