>>3313242you can't tell what you're looking at because your subject is a mess of foliage on a bright day. you did a decent job picking a "subject", and you got it in focus. your camera decided to shoot at 1/125 ISO 100, but it would have been sharper at 1/250 ISO 400.
which brings me to my main point. why did you buy a $400 DSLR if you're going to shoot it on auto? switch that fucker over to manual and engage your brain when you take a photo. thinking about your exposure makes you think about other things, like composition. I can't give you decent advice on exposure until you start shooting manual and start making mistakes.
and that brings me to composition. your composition is bad. no offense. it's not terrible, and you have a much better eye than many many beginners, but you need to think more and ask yourself more questions before you pull the shutter.
pick your subject. your subject shouldn't be messy foliage but okay, let's say it is. look at that foliage with your naked-ass eyes, not through your viewfinder, and position yourself so it looks good. you already did a decent job of that.
ask yourself questions. does the framing lead the viewer's eye to my subject? yeah, actually, it does, that big diagonal line is very strong and the blue sky at the top right frames it well.
is my subject hard to look at? yes it is. there's your biggest problem.
read this
http://willkempartschool.com/the-secret-of-good-composition/go look at a bunch of Caravaggio and Raphael paintings and study them while thinking about the article
then apply all of that to your photography
I applied the rule of thirds strongly in this photo. learn it. use it everywhere.
