>>4114475You're welcome, sorry if it sounds harsh.
If anything, your photos remind me a bit of my own when I started getting into photography seriously. Overall not terrible and completely worthless on a technical standpoint, but just bland and uninteresting.
Looking back on it I feel like I made a big progress in a few months by taking a large amount of photos, spending a lot of time editing them, nitpicking every detail, looking back at them after some time to get a fresh eye and understand why it's bad or good, and looking at other photos that inspire me. I guess the fact that I was in an environment that was stimulating and interesting to me (moving to a new city/country) make aeverything easier for me but I learned to do that at home too. That brings me to two points that in my opinion are crucial to becoming a better photographer :
1. working up your confidence. I do mostly streets, but that works for any kind of photography that involves people. If you're a bit spergy like I am, you get self conscious, you don't really know if "have a right" to take photos of people or weird stuff that doesn't look of interest. Took me some time to get over it. Being confident in what you're doing allows you to be bolder in what and how you shoot, experience allows you to know what you've already done before that did or didn't work, on both a technical and composition standpoint.
2. working up your photographic taste. Find out what you like, don't hesitate to copy styles and photographers that you like at first, mix it all up, make your own mix of everything you like
3. working up your social skills. If you're into portrait or event shooting, learn to interact with people to make them comfortable in front of the camera, tell them how to pose, where to stand to get a good like etc.
As for film, yeah it's expensive and inconvenient, I started shooting it way into my "career", after learning on DSLR for a long time. Also shoot b&w, will helps both your wallet and your skills
