Comment by aspyct
3 years ago
It's really hard, maybe impossible to come up to a new place and instantly take a good shot.
You need to stay there, move around, explore the space, the light, the interaction with the living.
Eventually you find a good way to tell the story of the place. You get lucky. Sometimes it's fast, sometimes it isn't.
+1 to that
I didn't take pictures I was proud of before going to protests to take pictures of people there, and trying to frame them as "badass" as possible.
Now I mostly shoot animals and landscapes, but I've been doing it for years at every oportunity I get, so my "gut feel" is strong there. I'm not great at portraits, for example, and have 0 interest in street shooting.