>>2911043Checked out your IG. I have a better grasp of your skillset now. These are all definitely of lower quality than the majority of stuff on your IG.
Overall your photography is very...stock. It's not bad...but it's also not good and very forgetable. All photographers go through this phase. Some never leave it, while others eventually realize that a good photo is a combination of many things coming together at once (what those things are can be an infinite combination of light, subject, composition, lines, movement, etc etc). At this point, you seem to be at the stage where you hit one of those. This is probably because it's hard to juggle and remember EVERYTHING at once. It's easy to see nice light and a curve and get excited, and completely overlook the handrail in the bottom of the frame (like that shot of the pool and lounge chairs on your IG). Or it's easy to see nice lines and a guy standing in a relatively pleasing place within the frame and overlook the ugly sign, ugly light, or fact you cut off his leg with the gate in a sloppy way.
In addition to the importance of light, photography is about editing the world down into a single, confined frame. Extraneous elements within that frame make a photo appear sloppy. Missing elements or seemingly important elements cut by the frame also appear sloppy. A major goal of photography is to make an image in which every part of the image contributes to a larger whole. If any part of the image were to be taken away the image would become less successful. If anything were added to the image, it would become less focused. It is extremely difficult to find this balance while at the same time making interesting images. This is why many photographers get stuck in the "stock" image phase. It's easy to take a photo of an isolated flower, or super tight crop of an animal. It seems that you're wanting to tell a story with your photos...
