I’ve been practicing photography for a while, and I’m usually happy with my photos when I look back at them.

But sometimes when I share them, the reaction is much lower than I expected. It makes me wonder if I’m missing something important.

How do you learn to judge whether a photo is actually strong?

Should I focus more on composition, storytelling, or improving my photo editing skills?

I'm pretty new to strobes, picked up a set of Godox strobes last spring and I've been trying to learn about studio lighting about portraits. I'm working my way through Andreas Bübl's Studio book, and I'm confused at how he uses f-stops in his lighting diagrams. In the example here, he has one strobe marked at f5.6 and the other at f10. My strobes can be set in decimals or in fractions, but not f-stops as far as I know. What does it mean to set a strobe to f5.6 or f10? Do you meter them individually to the camera's fstops and then do a meter for the overall composition?