amateur photographer, CC please!

Just playing around with my new camera, and I LOVE to take pictures so any advice you can give to make the pictures of my travels more memorable would be GREAT!

I like them all except number 2. The Mayan ruin does nothing for me and you wouldn't what it is without your explanation. Plus it's underexposed.

As I am new to all of this could you explain what you mean by underexposed and how to fix that?

Hey Erica, I would have to agree with the second shot. The trees are all under exposed meaning they are too dark. Being that the sky is so bright your cam set a short exposure. Most likely it can be edited PP. I also think it would look better cropped tighter and moving the temple to the upper 1/3rd. That would also make it a little easier to correct the low exposure of the tree line.

Erica-
What mode(s) are you shooting in?

dwarrenr wrote in post #10094936
Hey Erica, I would have to agree with the second shot. The trees are all under exposed meaning they are too dark. Being that the sky is so bright your cam set a short exposure. Most likely it can be edited PP. I also think it would look better cropped tighter and moving the temple to the upper 1/3rd. That would also make it a little easier to correct the low exposure of the tree line.

I see what you mean about cropping to put it in top 1/3. That would have looked better.

kayl wrote in post #10094990
Erica-
What mode(s) are you shooting in?

I think I simply had the camera in landscape mode at that point.

Number 2 is my favorite. I would crop it so that the sky occupies only about 1/3 or less of the frame. As others have suggested, I would lighten everything except the sky. You could do this with layers in photo shop. Other PP software probably has similar options for selective lightening and darkening.

#1 is my favorite. Really works for me.