Buying a camera with all the options to take photos the way you want it and using it on Auto is like buying a Ferrari to go shopping at the Supermarket.

Take your time to understand your gear, read the manual, watch some videos before you press the button because gear without skill is useless.

No gear, no cameras, just composition, lights… https://www.youtube.com/@CameraClubLive/videos

and another one:

https://www.youtube.com/@ThePhotographicEye/videos

Forget about working as a free lance photographer, you’ll be better off working at McDonald’s.

When I see someone who says he took 200 photos and only considers 5 of them to be good enough for him, I wonder:

What was he thinking when he took the other 195?

That by pressing the shutter 200 times he might have a lucky break and take the best picture of his life?

I am glad to have learned photography when those of us who had cameras only had film, because of the high cost of film and development, not only we had to learn the handling of the camera, but also all the details of the composition because there was no Photoshop to correct the mistakes.

To take 40 pictures and say that only 5 came out well was unthinkable in the time of film cameras and you really spent time learning the trade to the last details, now anyone with a f#*&#g camera who likes 5 pictures out of the 200 they took think they have talent and could be professional photographers and charge a fortune for taking pictures and be famous.

In my opinion, if you consider yourself a photographer and you have enough experience as a photographer and a bit of creativity you surely “see” the photo before taking it and when you do it will have all the elements to be a good photo both technically and in composition, now if you take 40 photos and then you realize that only one is apparently qualified as a good photo, you definitely do not have what it takes to be a “photographer”.

If you have the knowledge and skill to master your equipment and artistically you can see a good composition, you have no excuse to say that out of 40 pictures you took only one or two that qualify as “good”, it should be more.