Trying to "edit" photos

[dc4teg]

my attempt, a few are gunna hate it, and some might actually like it, but im just learning.

[iCandiBallPythons]

Pretty cool

[CamStatic]

It's all right, considering that you're still learning. (though you never really "stop learning" when it comes to photography. That's the fun part!)

Can I come with a few advice?

What type of camera you have will define how good quality your photos have. Whenever snapping a shot, it's important to think "Will the object I'm shooting give nice balance in this picture?" If it doesn't, but still turns out great, you can just crop it a little to make it better balanced.
Pretty much always when snapping portrait photos of living things, you should always have the focus on the eyes. The eyes is what our eyes search for in a photo, and if they're blurry, the quality of the photo decreases a lot. (All rules have a "but", meaning if the focus-point is different in order to create something artistically different, then it's okay)

And when you're editing a photo, you need to make sure that the white-balance is correct (unless it's artistically supposed to be off), which I can see is a little blue on your last photo. Blue creates a very cold feeling. And yellow and red creates hot. Snakes in cold settings seems a little weird.

On the first photo, you have a very dreamy effect. Normally I would advice against using that sort of effects, but I guess that just comes down to personal taste of what you like.

The colors on both of your photos seems a little burned and "too" sharp. Too much contrast? But this really depends on what type of camera you have, and what lense. The more expensive, the usually better. (Sadly. :p )

Best advice I really can give you, is to play around as much as possible with editing your photos, find out what you like, and absolutely check around at for example Deviantart.com and search out professional photographs. What effects do they use? How do they crop their photos? What's in focus?

There's a bazillion types of photograph-styles and editing styles. If you search around at Deviant Art, you'll find a lot.

[dc4teg]

It's all right, considering that you're still learning. (though you never really "stop learning" when it comes to photography. That's the fun part!)

Can I come with a few advice?

What type of camera you have will define how good quality your photos have. Whenever snapping a shot, it's important to think "Will the object I'm shooting give nice balance in this picture?" If it doesn't, but still turns out great, you can just crop it a little to make it better balanced.
Pretty much always when snapping portrait photos of living things, you should always have the focus on the eyes. The eyes is what our eyes search for in a photo, and if they're blurry, the quality of the photo decreases a lot. (All rules have a "but", meaning if the focus-point is different in order to create something artistically different, then it's okay)

And when you're editing a photo, you need to make sure that the white-balance is correct (unless it's artistically supposed to be off), which I can see is a little blue on your last photo. Blue creates a very cold feeling. And yellow and red creates hot. Snakes in cold settings seems a little weird.

On the first photo, you have a very dreamy effect. Normally I would advice against using that sort of effects, but I guess that just comes down to personal taste of what you like.

The colors on both of your photos seems a little burned and "too" sharp. Too much contrast? But this really depends on what type of camera you have, and what lense. The more expensive, the usually better. (Sadly. :p )

Best advice I really can give you, is to play around as much as possible with editing your photos, find out what you like, and absolutely check around at for example Deviantart.com and search out professional photographs. What effects do they use? How do they crop their photos? What's in focus?

There's a bazillion types of photograph-styles and editing styles. If you search around at Deviant Art, you'll find a lot.

WOW thanks for the great advice

ya Im just a noob... not looking for professional photography....

Did you go to school for this stuff because you know what your talking about!

Thanks for the tips and the camera is just a crappy cannon powershot a570... nothing much