Just a few shots

[Kenzie]

Taken on a day out to Banham Zoo. S5600 Fuji but don't ask me the rest of the settings!

[GeoffWessex]

Kenzie, I'm afraid the first one doesn't work at all. The Leopard and the Otter(?) could be excellent but need some more contrast - I don't know if you use any editing software but it needs only a simple adjustment to Levels. And a little crop.

[Kenzie]

The only software I have is what came with the camera, in this case a fuji s5600. Was looking for a d5000 but budget restrictions I now have an Hs10. Would contrast bring out the colour more as I have no experience of editing as you can see!

[GeoffWessex]

Yes, it would a little and certainly bring them to life a little more. I don't know anything about your Fuji software.

Also, Picasa is a pretty good free editor - very simple and will definitely improve your pictures.

Photoscape is also very good, and free.

The Big Brother of free editing software is very powerful Gimp.... but I don't recommend it for a complete beginner..... even as a fairly experienced photo editor I find that a lot of its techniques and features are just not logical - but perhaps it's because it's so different to the now-universal Photoshop techniques.