>>3057329>ends up just looking like I just took a picture for the sake of taking a pictureWhy do you think that it's not what you should do now?
>I can't manage to capture a momentWhat was the definition of "moment" which you wanted to capture with picrelated? Was there anything specific what you were feeling at that moment?
Any advanced photography is psychological modelling combined with your perception. One possible way of creating outstanding photograph:
1) you experience something what can interest your audience
2) you use artistic methods to express what you feel about the photograph
3) you use artistic methods to make photograph appealing to your audience
The proportion of 2) and 3) varies depending on what you want to accomplish. An artistic metod in photography is selection of perspective, framing, lighting, exposure parameters, editing and probably modification of the scene.
This way requires finding something what can be interesting and using artistic methods to make it more interesting if it's not amusing by itself. Any subject can be muted by it's surrounding, and what you are searching for is combination of subject, lighting, scenery.
You can only find out what is interesting for your audience by studying the images which they like and copying artistic methods which were used. This is the easiest way of starting making appealing images.
If you want to be able to recognize artistic methods you should experiment with perspective, framing, exposure parameters, lighting, editing to see what difference they introduce.
So, given that you are complete newfriend now, you:
- RTFM
- experiment with every thing which makes up final image to find out it's importance
- view images while analyzing them to find common artistic methods
- copy few images to find out how to apply artistic methods
- read some blogs like
https://petapixel.com/ (but skip gear reviews)
And then you will know better than us what to do next.
