gratz on all the 5 star love but RIP on the secondaries I am so sorry friend <| sep |> Hi there . Your first shot has a load of potential , even when it comes to color alone . To show you what I ' m on about , I threw two presets of mine on there and uploaded them . Note that these presets weren ' t meant for your image , yet they go to show how much variance there is still to make us of . Even in the JPGs ! Feel free to hate them ! For your second shot , either a smaller depth of field or a more clean background could have done . The dog is the subject , there is no alternative to that , but the box and table in the background demand too much attention . Why ? Because the box is red , and red is the most attentiongrabbing color . Mind it , because it has quite the impact . Secondly , the background is way brighter than the subject . That ' s not a problem in itself , especially since the haloglow around your dog is beautifully done and sets your subject apart from the background . But it is too dark to make out anything . We see that it ' s a dog , but not more . There is nothing to explore around the subject itself , because it is too dark . Thus , the eye might wander around and end up . nowhere , left disappointed . The Swing shot has potential , and could work with again more depth of field , and stepping way closer . You ' ll notice a profound effect in getting close to your subject . E . g . , with your dog , you got close and got good results . Remember that focal length does not change perspective . You got to walk to change that and give a feeling of depth . Your second of your dog has poor subject matter . The stump on the left has almost equal visual weight as the dog , and looks similar . You obviously don ' t care for the stump , so why don ' t leave the stage to Yoshi . If you photograph him looking away , that ' s good . But perhaps include the thing he is looking at . That way , this thing becomes your subject with Yoshi opening up the scene . If you only care for Yoshi , bad luck . Him looking away but being in the center is unlikely to be engaging . Like the symmetry in the last shot . Again , more postprocessing could carry this shot over the line from ' some shot ' to ' a shot worth keeping '. As for a subject , the tree growing up the building seems interesting to me . Would have loved to see you work with that , but that obviously was not the image you had in mind . Perhaps , you like BW for this one . EDIT You might have noticed how I used a lot of terms you may not be familiar with . Assuming you really just started out , I apologize . I ' m new to this as well and forgot that we shall start slowly . I ' m however not going to edit my comment , that would be utterly pointless . Maybe return again later on , when you ' re all set .