>>4504690
Strobist is a must. Check it with your main search engine.

>>4504702
Thanks for the recommendation, will definitely be taking a read through it all

You do not need much, find a website with plenty of other photographer better than you that post their portrait to train your eyes/brain.

And actually go and photography portrait, learn light,i would recommend to not start in studio but with day light, it's a good way to understand light since you can't control the sun, but you can control your position/choice of place to shoot.

Also, do not be like all the cringe new photographer who say that everyone is beautiful, it's fake, do not photography ugly people, it's not worth it.

>>4504702
>>4505750
Based

OP you need the develop a way to see the world and then actualize it. Don't do this shit empty headed. If your mind is empty you will create nothing much.

>>4505750
>>4505795
I do really want to find inspiration, it's just the only place I personally know of is instagram. For the accounts I do find, they either over edit their photos or don't really have much of a style, which makes it hard for me to be inspired. I also want to see the world, I really do, but I live a bit away from a relatively boring city nor do I have the funds to go out and travel. In a way I feel stuck, literally and metaphorically. I know I sound like I'm whining and making excuses, I'm just looking for direct guidance, or someone to show me the paths I can take so I can decide on the one for meant for me.

>>4505912
>I do really want to find inspiration, it's just the only place I personally know of is instagram. For the accounts I do find, they either over edit their photos or don't really have much of a style, which makes it hard for me to be inspired. I also want to see the world, I really do, but I live a bit away from a relatively boring city nor do I have the funds to go out and travel. In a way I feel stuck, literally and metaphorically. I know I sound like I'm whining and making excuses, I'm just looking for direct guidance, or someone to show me the paths I can take so I can decide on the one for meant for me.
I feel you. I live under the same conditions in the northern part of the planet which means little activity, little light, but a lot of nature which gets boring quickly. Closest city which is rather small does not have any interesting infrastructure either as it was all bombed in the last Jew-war, so only cement buildings from the 50s is what I have to work with. I have adapted to these conditions by focusing on things that are unique instead of copying others. What I do is look for things and structures that are decayed and rotten and plan my shots in terms of lighting and seasonal changes. I have taken a couple of photos I am very proud of. I'd rather take a few bangers than a lot of city snapshits that everybody has seen variations of before.

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>>4505912
>I also want to see the world, I really do, but I live a bit away from a relatively boring city nor do I have the funds to go out and travel.
NO! That's not what I mean by "seeing the world". I am saying that you should develop a vision, a philosophy, see which aesthetic tradition you want to be a part of, what kind of aesthetic universe that you want to create. Traveling won't do shit if your thoughts and vision have no substance.

>I live a bit away from a relatively boring city
This is a total fucking cope. In city you can find people to photographs. For example if you want to practice portraits ask the uni students that you'll give high end photos in the exchange that they model for you. Just hit up people on Instagram. Learn from limitations. I literally live in a 3rd world village and I have taken thousands of photos. Here's what I did: searched for photographers(all of them are from 20th century and from different countries) everywhere which worked in similar landscape to mine and mimicked their shit until I developed my own style. I also took deep dive into local history of my village and surrounding areas so lots of cool and obscure things came up. If not anything you can learn to balance composition literally anywhere so maybe try that.

>it's just the only place I personally know of is instagram.
IG can be a good source for finding cool stuff but it's hidden under a heap of shit, try tumblr and look for old master photographers. Checkout /p/ wiki there are bunch photographer recommendations so check them out.

>I'm just looking for direct guidance, or someone to show me the paths I can take so I can decide on the one for meant for me.
There's no path. You have to develop your own style and say things through photographs.

But tell me what kind of aesthetics you are interested in and I'll give some recommendation based on that.

>>4505912
>it's just the only place I personally know of is instagram
Pinterest or Lomography or dedicated photo groups on Facezucc. Don't expect perfect pictures but it might help you narrow down what you like/dislike.

>they either over edit their photos or don't really have much of a style
This is most people with a camera. Identify what you dislike and then just don't do that. If you don't know what you like then ruling out what you don't is a good place to start.

>I also want to see the world
What the other guy said but also you will find travel does not lead to much unless it involves things you already have passion for.
My travel photos are mid, generic film photo holiday snapshits (nice for memories but nothing special), but the photos I took of the armoured train I went travelling to see I liked a lot more as worthy photos. The same for my flaktower pictures from Vienna.
tl;dr worry less about going lots of random disconnected places, go find things that actually interest you

If all else fails, I assure you that a set of macro tubes will significantly increase the range of things you can photograph and can help with actually finding things you are interested in when the larger objects mean nothing to you.