First Foray into the Lions Den...

[TheBigYin]

I'd appreciate a few tips on how to improve these pictures if you could.

Bearing in mind they were taken 2 days after I bought the camera, and that to be honest i'm a walker who takes photographs rather than a photographer who was on a photo-walk

1/ Swirral Edge on Helvellyn


2/ Looking west over Buttermere Fells



3/ Looking Back to Skiddaw and Blencathra




(don's tin hat and hides behind wall of sandbags)

 

[DonnaM]

The main probelm is that you have the horizon cutting the frame in half. You ought to employ the "rule of thirds" here. That said, No 2 is absolutely exquisite, No.1 is pretty good and No. 3 needs a touch more contrast. All need a bit of the sky cropped out.
For a first outing these are very good indeed, keep it up!

 

[TheBigYin]

The main probelm is that you have the horizon cutting the frame in half. You ought to employ the "rule of thirds" here...

You mean a bit more like this for the first one ?

And theres a bit more contrast-ey version of no.3 as well...

 

[DonnaM]

Yeah, that's better IMO

 

[TheBigYin]

Cheers - and thanks for the kind words about #2 as well