>>4424250no not really. you should just practice more. photography is best learnt by doing.
(i do recommend you study/understand the exposure triangle atleast somewhat before hand, but you'll eventually learn it through experience.)
>What even makes a picture good?a good picture has good composition. The light, space, subject, movement, colors, balance, and other things in frame mix with eachother.
> I wanna be more proactive with my learning.Go out with your camera and practice your compositions (and exposure). evaluate those compositions, what did you like, what didnt you like? why? It may be hard to put into words but you can inately tell if theres something stopping a good composition. its not rocket science
Experiment with the shot. take it from the floor, from 50 feet away, portait mode, pan the camera a bit to the left.
take your time. look and move around. a good composition isn't always immediately obvious.
I also recommend looking at other's photos/art to help build your taste. it doesnt really matter from where or what medium it is. composition is composition.
theres instagram, pinterest, /p/, /w/, /wg/, any 4chan board really, or literally an place you can see a composition. hell I even have porn saved purely beacause it was a nice composition. beautiful compositions are everywhere. google "top 100 photos 20xx". check our your nearby art museums or something.
eventually youll learn what you like and dont like and youll see good compositions more frequently and youll know how to take them effectivly
>more than half being kinda assIt usually happens that the majority of shutters are deleted, atleast for digital photog.
I went on a 3 day roadtrip a few months ago. Took like 2,000+ shutters but I only kept like 200 of them. but I quite like those 200. the other 2,000 clicks didnt make the cut for one reason or another. just the way it is and one of the benefits of non-film.
