The only way to be good at photography is to look at a shit tonne of "good" photos and TRY to emulate them. Good photos are just beautiful moments in every day life that some 'photographer' managed to see the beauty of and capture in a photograph.

That all being said, I own this book (and its counterpart):
https://www.amazon.com/Read-This-Great-Photographs-People/dp/1780676247

buy and read it. It's not long. It's full of pictures that explain the concepts, and it's an easy read if you don't like words. Unfortunately, it won't instantly help you become a better photographer. It'll only help you "see" good photographs when they present themselves to you. The only way is through trial and error, my friend.

>>17315898
The trick to taking good pictures is spotting the good picture waiting to be taken. Professional photographers encourage the model to move around and then snap away like crazy, hoping that somewhere among the dozens of snaps will be the great one.

Test

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My best male friend also tells a lot of hot women he's a photographer. He doesn't really have skills (80% of his pictures are blurry), but he snaps away and at least a few of them are actually nice. He takes a lot of time painting his models and finds nice spots to take the pictures, sometimes inside his house, sometimes in the garden or in a forest. His camera settings are automatic so he doesn't have to adjust the lense. Just practise, try and believe you can do it. He literally made hundreds of pictures all together. This is a good picture he took of me (sorry for my English)

>>17315898
> I know a thing or two about photography
I read that as pornography

>>17316017
>I read that as pornography
I think that's what opie actually has in mind.

>>17315898
Read the manual, fuck head.

>>17316014
>His camera settings are automatic
really? and they don't realize that he doesn't know what he's doing?

>>17316025
I'm not denying that