New user, need some help!

[benpsut]

Hi all! I've been wanting to get into photography for a while, I always messed around with my dads 35mm SLR (forget what it was, so long ago) and everytime my mom would go and buy a new P&S I'd play with it and try to mimic photo's I've seen that are just great and try to understand how the shots were taken. I'm a "teach myself" type of person. Always have been. But anyways, I'm just not "getting" it, I suppose you can call it. I thought I had an eye for composition but I don't know, I need some advice on these shots I'm going to link and maybe some of you can point me in the right direction?


http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/10thstreet.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/JenandJenDad2.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/Maggie.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/parkandlake14.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/nighttraffic4.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/nighttraff.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/parkandlake16.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/BacklitSnow.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/BitofGreen.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/FrozenFishing.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/FrozenFishing2.jpg
http://i83.photobucket.com/albums/j294/benpsut/otherstuff/HugeTower.jpg



**Some shots may be dusty, didn't realize this until I got them into photoshop, I did the best I could with them dust wise. The image quality is poor due to resizing for photobucket and then them compressing them**

Thank you very much!

Ben