Honestly for wildlife, if you’re in absolute full manual then your exposure will be all over the place, or you miss shots adjusting - I go manual with auto iso

I’ve always taken this piece of advice differently, I’ve never seen it as ‘tell a story’ but rather ‘tell YOUR story’, which just helps get across how I saw the scene in the image, both in field and in editing, eg highlighting what I was focused on, pushing in the emotions I was feeling. This changes when the focus is some kind of external story, street and wildlife mainly you’re capturing another story, but for landscapes I take it in this other way of capturing MY story - if that makes sense

Wether even worse or just as bad is film emulation, bad shots on digital but it looks like film so it’s artsy