What do you want out of your photography?
Visual arts are a language all in its own, and just like in writing the 'quality' of it will depend on the nature of the writing. One needs to decide what kind of direction they want to take their work in, as memoirs aren't remotely related to sci-fi, which don't read anything like Victorian style romances. They share many of the same fundamental elements that are used to compose the work, but the actual execution of them are very different from one and other.
In addition to the suggestion to study the work of past masters you also really need to study your own work as much, if not more, than the work of others.
Why isn't something working? What don't you like about a photo you've taken? Where are the weak points? Where are the distractions?
What works for one great photographer didn't work for all of them, otherwise there would be rather limited variation in photographic arts today.
Visual arts are a language all in its own, and just like in writing the 'quality' of it will depend on the nature of the writing. One needs to decide what kind of direction they want to take their work in, as memoirs aren't remotely related to sci-fi, which don't read anything like Victorian style romances. They share many of the same fundamental elements that are used to compose the work, but the actual execution of them are very different from one and other.
In addition to the suggestion to study the work of past masters you also really need to study your own work as much, if not more, than the work of others.
Why isn't something working? What don't you like about a photo you've taken? Where are the weak points? Where are the distractions?
What works for one great photographer didn't work for all of them, otherwise there would be rather limited variation in photographic arts today.