How to take a good photo?
Anyone who picks up a camera and wants to capture something, wants to take good photos. What exactly constitutes a good photo is difficult to determine.
What exactly constitutes a good photo is difficult to determine. The criteria for a good photo are different for everyone. One person wants a razor-sharp photo in which everything is perfectly displayed, another wants to capture a blurred, abstract representation of something. And everything in between!
Temper your expectations
One of the most important lessons I have learned is to temper your expectations. Let's assume for a moment that you have a certain goal to photograph. Perhaps you want to focus on street photography and you have a particular photo or photographer in mind that serves as your inspiration. Because photographer X is always so good at capturing striking personalities in great situations. Or you dream away at the landscape photos of photographer Y, who can produce an image at the perfect time using the best lenses and polarizing filters. Studio portraits by photographer Z, who can manipulate the lighting like no other.
But maybe you don't want to mirror someone else, and you have a number of images in mind that you want to shoot. The image has formed in your head. You have been there before, but the circumstances were not ideal; the light was not good, there was a van parked there, [fill in your own excuses].
Focus on what is actually there
If you set off with too many expectations and you do not see what you had in mind, you can get a negative feeling. You don't succeed in creating your image. Your day is ruined. You never succeed.
Try to focus on what is there and capture it. Even if it is not what you had in mind, you have worked with the conditions of that moment and made something of it. Cherish what you have made. It is important never to throw away a photo, but that is beside the point... and mentioned in a previous post.
And that image you had in your head is not gone, it just needs some more maturing and patience.