When I teach I spend a lot of time trying to help people make better pictures. That might seem obvious, that is what I am paid to do, but that doesn’t just mean teaching what apertures or ISO or focal length mean or how to shoot a portrait or the best way to capture a landscape. It means I try to change the way my students think about photography, their photography. I use many techniques to do this but the bottom line with all of them is the student has to practice. I explain that without paying attention to what they are doing it is unlikely they will be satisfied with their results, or at least not often enough. Many of the ways I encourage students to get better are contained in this article on Lightstalking, a very good blog that I would recommend you follow.
Composition in Photography
1. You Don’t Pay Attention to the Composition
2. You Don’t Know the Basics of Exposure
3. You Don’t Experiment With the Perspective
4. You Don’t Understand How Lighting Affects a Photograph
5. You Don’t Post-Process Your Photos
6. You Haven’t Taken Up a Photography Project
7. You Don’t Have a Well-Defined Subject in Your Photo
read what Ritesh Saini has to say about these and the rest of the reasons here
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