Dear Photoguy,
I don't have the time to read all of your millions of threads the past few days but I saw some of them and I have some advice one noob to another.
I am not going to discuss what i think of your photos, but from other members responses it seems that most of them don't have a favorable view on your photos. Now don't be discouraged, usually forum members are very nice and courteous to newer members, the problem is how you went about posting photos. You have posted loads of photos (from what I can tell) over the past few days, and a lot of them are of the same subject matter in different threads, but still making the same mistakes you had made previously, showing you basically ignored the advice other forum members gave you. That makes them angry, because not only does it show that your wasting their time, your wasting your own time too.
Its understandable that you will make mistakes, and sometimes repeat them, but you are just posting so many images so close together. This leads me to believe that you are posting a large portion of what you shooting. What percent of your photos do you like, and what percentage to you post here, show to other people, and post to other sites? I can't speak for anyone else, but I usually start my editing/ finding my best photos by trimming it down to about 5-10% of the shots I took. I then look them over and show them to my family, which helps me trim it down to 2-3%. I then edit most of these photos, and pick out my favorite to post to the forums. This ends up to be about 1-2%.
For every 100 photos I take I only get about 1-2 and the occasional 3 shots that I think are good enough to post to the forums (by my beginner standards, which are only getting tougher as I grow as a photographer). With all the photos you post, it seems like you must be posting a very high percent. Now on for my advice. It is clear that people are telling you to get better gear, but as you stated you can't. That does not mean you can't get excellent photos, it just means in certain situations (in particular the night shots you are recently posting) you won't be able to get the optimal shots. Instead you should take pictures in situations that you know your camera can perform well.
From what I've heard those bridge camera's are very capable. On my dslr (d3000) I can't even get great night shots without either a tripod or very fast prime lens. I have neither so I do what you should, I take pictures in situations where I can get great shots. Now my next advice is to stop posting photos for a while. Read your cameras menu, read it again, look online for further information on photography and your camera settings (in particular the shutter and aperture, for me I use these the most because I am still starting out and I find it difficult to use manuel without spending large amounts of time to get the exposure correct). Do you know what changing the shutter speed does or means, what about aperture or ISO? It is essential to know about all of this to produce truly stunning photos. After you feel you truly understand your camera and all of this, take more photos!
Try in the morning, day, and time. Expirement with different things even if you don't know how it will come out. If you can't go somewhere to experiment try in your backyard. Take pictures of flowers, trees, your house, really anything to experiment. When I first got my dslr, I took hundreds of terrible photos just trying out settings and other things. Once you start to understand this your photos will improve greatly. Once you see your photos improving, pick out your very best and then it would be a great idea to post them here. Just my beginner advice for you...
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