I'm a beginner at photography, I'm open to any suggestions!

[Chiara Scalari]

These are the very first photos I took with my new digital camera at my grandma's place.

 

[PJM]

Welcome to TPF. My suggestion is to keep shooting and post more of your photos in the various forums.

 

[Jeff15]

Hello and welcome. Just keep taking more and more shots, and you will do just fine ...

 

[Ihatemymoney]

work on learning white balance

 

[JoeW]

Welcome. The great French photographer Cartier-Bresson once said: "Your first 10,000 photos are your worst." So...keep shooting. And ask for critiques. Not "please give me praise" but "how would you crop this differently?" or "does this work better in color or B&W"

 

[greybeard]

The more pictures you take, the more you will learn. How are you processing your shots. Are you using any software yet?

 

[zombiesniper]

Welcome to TPF.

All good looking images.
Not sure if this is the style you were going for but almost all of the whites are overdone and blown out.

 

[SunriseAvenue]

Hi and welcome! I like the images you've posted, but I have to agree with others, the whites look overdone. Not sure if this is the exposure problem or the style you were going for, but if it's the former here is a good article on editing overexposed photos.
If this is the effect you wanted to achieve and went for purposefully, then I'm sorry and ignore the previous paragraph!

 

[21limited]

In many instance you have a choice, blacked out shadows or blown out whites. Blown out whites are also known as highlights and are well deployed in portrait work. The “hair light” being deployed to create a specific highlight. And personally, in my younger days, I really loved high contrast, with both blown out whites and underexposed blacks in the same image. High key images intentionally blow out the whites. In this image, the fur detail on the dog is more important than snow detail, so I over exposed and blew out the snow. It’s a technique. Don’t let others make it sound like it’s something to be always avoided. Like everything else, it has it’s place, if that’s what you like, stick to your guns.
2022-01-13-Chase by Norm Head, on Flickr

In much of photography keeping everything within the limits of the camera’s dynamic range is a goal. But high key can still be used for effect. And especially in direct sun, the scene may not be within the Dynamic Range of the camera to capture everything. The photographer chooses what is appropriate to his style. Don’t expect this kind of criticism to go away, the other photography teacher where I tuaught and I used to debate, high contrast or subltle less flashy gradations, in front of each other classes, almost as an exercise in “You can’t be dogmatic about these things, do what the image and scene calls for.” Yet, his portrais used hair lights , for blown out high lights, and mine included a full represetation of the scene’s contrast. You need to be aware of both approaches and use what from each approach is relevant to what’s in front of you.

My portfolio submitted when I was accetpted into Photo Arts had both a low key night time shot with star lights of a bridge, and high key image of my sister.

IN this article you can scroll down to a Low Key image, you noticer that even though it’s low key, it still has a blown out high light on the cheek.

These are dramatic effects that add a lot of creative possibility to your work. Good photgrapehrs will make use of both, intentionally.

Even when not goint extreme low or high key, keeping the effects in mind can still help build drama in your images.

This one is a low key lineage type photo, without being strictly low key.
2022-07-12-16_Trip-2-Big_Beach-5 by Norm Head, on Flickr

 

[gk fotografie]

A good start, the photos are just a bit too dark in my opinion, but that can be solved in any editing program. Forget what is said above about high key and low key, it's hardly relevant in this case. Just take a lot of photos, read a lot about photography (every library in the world has photo books) and look at the work of professional photographers from home and abroad to learn.
Also learn how to edit photos, watch a lot of videos on Youtube about editing photos and practice - practice - practive, there are dozens of free and paid photo editing programs. I edited the photo of your grandma a bit (made it slightly lighter) with the free program Paint.Net, so, as you can see there's actually little wrong with your photos, not much that needs to be done. Good luck with your photo-hobby and have fun on this forum.

 

[RacePhoto]

Learn the foundations, fundamentals and the classic skills, golden rules of composition and triangle of exposure... then go off and do your own thing.

Be free, experiment, let yourself be creative in what you see, with your eyes in your mind. What I mean is, don't try to be someone else or think that you need to be.

 

[DanOstergren]

It's a good start! Keep it up!