[grimm]

Camera features and photo critique are very different?

The main problem is you don't know which images are underexposed, or off. Not many people are going to go into such details about 10 randomish pictures. You gotta take "the exposure is off in most of them" comment as: I need to work on exposure, not in just one image but most of them. Same with the color balance. When you look at your photo, compared to the one i edited do you see the differences? do you see how they are different? hopefully you do... and with that... try to make yours look like mine...

Try using the auto features, i know there should be some sort of auto exposure and auto aperture, try using one of those, and adjust the other property. (personally i like to use the auto exposure and then manually adjust the aperture) then once you get that down pat, work on full manual.

The best thing you can do is to just keep at it.

heres a cool tip in getting you up to speed.

Put your camera on a tripod, In manual mode, Set the camera, exposure, aperture, iso etc etc. To what you think is right. Take a photo.
Then turn your camera to full auto mode. Take the same picture. compare them.