I'm no expert but just an enthusiast just taking photographs that are interesting with no genre in mind or expectation of being acclaimed. It is nice though when it's peer reviewed and liked. Here are some of my photographs posted in VIEWBUG https://www.viewbug.com/member/PaulDharmaratne

By the way, I like your photographs.🙂

Personally, I feel to get to a point where you have developed an unique style you need to try every genre, at least ones that appeal to you. It is this uniqueness that seems to separate run of the mill photographs from acclaimed ones irrespective of the genre. Some people are definitely gifted and their creativity is mind blowing. We probably see only the end results of their journey rising from ordinary to extraordinary. They too probably tried everything at the start. Point is you do need to try everything along the way until you discover your niche.

This is an excellent video on cleaning up your photos using Lightroom.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLX27yyDiIs

After many, many photos in a darkened garage with smoke from two jos (incense) sticks with an image of a cigarette added in PS made for an interesting photograph. Hope you like it!

Canon 5D Mk IV 50mm f/4 1/125 ISO 100 Canon 580EX II

You may like this. Got into an corporate calendar.

This is the best I could do. There are others that can use the beta version of PS better than I can.😉

Godox X2T-C 2.4G TTL Bluetooth Wireless Flash Trigger Transmitter for Canon AU $92.06
Godox X1R-C i-TTL 2.4G Wireless Flash Controller Receiver Shutter For Canon AU $63.00

Bought on eBay, works fine with my Speedlite 580 EX M2 and R5.

I bought a VEIKK tablet. Reasonably priced and has good reviews.

But edting with a graphic tablet is better than a mouse but it not that easy either.

My experience too, I get emails wanting me to renew to the highest category of membership. I also get stat's saying I'm in the top 10% , the demographic of my followers etc. occasionally but never won a competition or sold any of my photographs. It was fun for awhile and it's handy to showcase your work and have so called peer reviews awards etc. I have decided to continue as a "free" member while I consider my own website. There are some quite brilliant photographers who are members if you scroll through the site to view their work.

Apart from archiving photographs to be passed on. I have family photographs taken in the late 1800's of a large family group but there's no one alive to identify anyone in the photograph which is a shame making the photograph meaningless. The point I am making it would be handy to have captions embedded in the photos with exif metadata. A tedious task at best probably impractical too.

Very interesting, thank you!

This is worth a watch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vyq304j4wE

One suggestion I've read, if you have time, take a shot in Auto and read the exif data to get your settings in manual and go from there.

This "may" answer your question.

https://support.usa.canon.com/kb/index?page=content&id=ART168700

I bought a course some years ago on choosing the right lens and the attached pdf from John Greengo was included. you may find it helpful. Please support him. I have no affiliation but doing the decent thing since I've shared his course material. His courses are at johngreengo.com . Needless to say I have used his courses for several cameras I've owned, most recently the Canon R5.