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Number your shots next time
1. Over Exposed and the busy background takes away from the shot.
2. Snapshotty
3. Washed out, white horse is a distraction
4. Front post steals the attention
Shot 1: Technically this is a tricky shot to get right with a single exposure - there are a number of methods you can use to balance the shot so that the sky and land are exposed well.
1) Expose for the sky - shift to manual shooting mode and set your settings for a correct exposure based on the sky alone (point camera at sky - meter - set settings - then compose the shot). That would give you a correct sky, but a darker land area and foreground. You could boost the lighting locally with flash for the flower - though you would still have a dark landscape behind it.
2) shoot in the evening/morning when the light in the sky is less, that will lower the general overall range of light in the scene and make it easier - however chances are you would still be moving towards a sillouet of the land and again the flash would be needed for the foreground
3) ND grad filters - these are good for balancing sky and land together -but they have a flat plain of change. So they will block light from a whole strip of your shot - which means that you would either end up with a dark toppoed flower and hills or an overexposed sky in the gaps between. Not ideal and most ND grads are used where there is a clear dividing line between the two areas - such as on the sea.
4) (and my prefered method for this shot) HDR. Take a series of exopsures using the same composition, but exposing each one for a different area - the sky, the landscape - the flower; and then combine them all together in the computer for a single composite image which holds all 3 different areas with the right exposure. You don't have to use it heavily and get that high contrast/saturation look, the effect can be far more sublty used with practice.
Shot 2)
Personally I would not call this snapshootish - I can see what you have gone for in the frame and it is a tricky shot to compose 0 since you have the foal facing one way and the mare in the other - so you have to pick which is looking into your scene and which is looking away and I think you got it right for this shot. The mare is looking away and out of the shot - whilst the foreground foal is looking right in. I would have been tempted to shoot lower to bring the foal out a little more.
The thing that (I feel) is distracting in the shot is the flowers on the right - it feels like too much content and is making the shot have 3 focus points (mare, foal and plant) so the viewers eyes don't know where to settle overall.
A hint of exposure compensation to underexpose the shot would have been good on the shot as well. A tip is that in stronger lighting and when shooting bright, reflective subjects (like white mare) is to underexpose the shots to limit the chances of a blowout like you got here.
Shot 3)
Again I see where you have gone in this shot, but the mare is being a big distraction on her part. Note just the overexposure problems on her back, but her large body in the shot is pulling us away from that great face on look from the foal. I would have shifted to portrait aspect and shot that way - to bring the foals face out more and to reduce the impact of the mare in the shot - you could crop this version now at any rate I think.
Shot 4)
Again another shot that would have benefited from HDR or being shot later (or earlier) in the day. Depth of field could also be a little less I feel - let that background really blur into nothing so that its not a distraction - so a larger aperture (smaller f number) would have been nice.
Overall I like what I am seeing here of your composition - though I feel that you had bad luck with the lighting as you arranged your shots. The sky was just too strong in many, though with some use of underexposure you might be able to get better results next time. Certainly the light appears well diffused (from the clouds) which is a great thing to have when you shoot.