photoshoot no good?, are they that bad? Options

[Shigexile]

So this is my 2nd year into taking pictures. I use a sony P2, an old 2 mega pix point-and-shoot camera for grandparents to use.

well any who, i went to take pictures with my friend who has a FD. Took quite a few pictures and went home to look at them on the computer. I saw that its not that bad with a camera that doesn't even have shutter priority or in matter of fact, no manual controls. My rx7 friend and I like the pictures but there is this one kid that says the pictures are horrible and not worth showing to other people. Whats the matter with him?

He can't even give me reasons why they are horrible (he doesn't know how hard photo taking is! ) He just says, "they suck". I wanted to jack him in the face at that moment but instead, I wanted some honest feedbacks from you guys.

I do realize i have a different style in my photos. like, i like the pictures to be dark (maybe under exposed?) and show a lot of shadows. Maybe he didn't like that? I just want to get better at taking photos. So tell me what I should fix and what you like please. I want some honest feedbacks from people who knows what they are talking about.

[Coomer]

You don't necessarily need to upgrade the camera...manual controls would help, but it's the photographer that makes the picture, not the camera.

I like those pictures. Choosing some better spots to shoot might work out better. If you could shoot somewhere where the bright lights don't cause washed out areas of the pictures, they might turn out a bit better...at least for the first couple shots. Just my constructive comments...those pictures do look nice though...did you up the contrast in an image-editing program?

[GT4WRC]

You don't necessarily need to upgrade the camera...manual controls would help, but it's the photographer that makes the picture, not the camera.

Totally agree with that 101%

I too like the first two pics. From a technical point of view, there is a lot of contrasting light there overall which would make taking a photo quite difficult, but I think you have done very well.
Gary