Become a Good Photographer, Part Six: Don’t Learn From Teachers

There is no shortage of people eager to tech you photography online these days. There are probably many tens of thousands of videos on YT. Maybe millions of tutorials about everything touching photography. But the vast majority will be useless to you and won’t better your photography. A tiny rock The algorithm keeps suggesting photography tutorials. Ten tips for better composition. Five mistakes beginners make. The secret to sharp images every time. All presented by someone with immaculate lighting, professional graphics, and absolutely nothing useful to say. These people don’t want to teach you photography. They want your attention, your clicks, your subscription. The content is optimised for engagement, not education. Ten percent information stretched across ten minutes of filler, hook, and call to action. They’re teaching to an imaginary average photographer with generic problems, offering recipes and formulas that might work for someone but probably won’t work for you. Stop…