Although teachers do a good job trying their best to teach what they can, you don’t truly learn until attempting it yourself. You can always follow someone and what they do but not really understand what you are doing but when you go off on your own and you put the skills that you learned to the test then that’s when you really start to understand what you are doing. The teacher can only teach you so much before letting you go off on your own and use what you’ve learned in the real world so that’s when you truly learn. When taking the photos above my critics helped because of the way i wanted the photo to look and the lighting I had to change my settings a bunch of times before I fully understood how to set my settings if I want a picture to look a certain way