>>3580756You just get good. These are not bad scenes, just lousy execution on most of them. You said that background intrigued you on one of the above shots, and then you left three quarters of the scene for the ground. No tripod and smaller focal lengths would help you there. Crop that I did is too extreme to get anything half quality out of it, but it should give you an idea what you had on same scene with a longer lens.
Again, tripod would not be a solution on this kind of photography. Forests offer plenty of natural stabilization options. You can lean on the tree, even place lens to the bark for near perfect stabilization of much longer lenses than what you're using. If you still get motion blur, just raise iso. It must come to you naturally what you can get out of your system, so just keep shooting. Experiment with different shooting modes. Soot in P for whole day and unlocked iso, then observe what setting camera gives you. Next day go with full M and experiment on your own.
