>>3150474> I can't think of any times I've taken a photo on a whim or apprehensively and it's turned out better than ones I've planned for.I can think of hundreds of times I've done that. I can think of times when I took a shot by pure accident (i.e., legitimately hit the shutter button without meaning to) and it came out pretty awesome and I figured out what I liked about that accidental shot and learned to do that on purpose when I wanted to.
>Absolutely not. But as I said above, doing more photography isn't the same as taking lots of photographs.I once got into an argument with a guy here on which would give you a better set of 52 photos:
1. Spending a week planning and setting up just one photo and really putting your all into it.
2. Taking a picture every single day, then picking the best shot from each week
(The context was, is it better to do a shot-a-week project or a shot-a-day project if you want to improve your photography).
To back up my side of the argument, I went through my previous picture-a-day years and picked out one shot that I considered the best from each week I did it. I noticed that, for the first year, it was hard because a lot of weeks had all shitty photos. Second year, it was a lot easier. Third year, I never had a problem finding a good one each week. By the fourth year forward, it was hard again because I was consistently posting a bunch of pictures I really liked each week and it was hard to choose among them. I don't think I ever convinced the guy I was trying to convince, but I 100% sold myself on the idea that the way to get good at photography is to take a shit-ton of pictures.
(As a side note, I'm still taking a picture every single day, and that other guy posted exactly one photo for his project-52 and gave up. And that photo was a boring picture of the film he'd be using for the subsequent photos he never took).
