Brand New to photo and need help

[Sinstur]

Ok so this is my first post and I would like to introduce my self as well as get some feed back. My name is Sean I'm 25 and I and very new to photo and have had no training and don't really know what I'm doing. I have a canon a630 and I need help. Please tell me what you think and what I can do better. First thing I should probably do is stop shooting with the auto setting on my camera lol but anyway please any feed back would be great and if you know anything i can do with my camera to take better pics please let me know.

Sean

now on to the pics

 

[chrisburke]

well the camera you are using is all auto settings. weather its night mode or the actual one called "auto" if you are looking into doing photography as more of a professional type thing, you may want to look into a DSLR like the Nikon D40 or canon rebel xt.

however, your pics look pretty good for a point and shoot camera. you even seem to have the rule of thirds down.

 

[Sinstur]

I'm pretty sure there are some manual settings at least thats what they told me when i bought the camera. and I'm probably going to sound like an idiot but whats the rule of thirds? And thank you for the feed back. Is there anything I could do better or different?

 

[photoman720]

The rule of thirds is when you divide the image by 3 lines both ways and put the subject on one of the 4 intersection points.