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Message: <blockquote data-quote="J-see" data-source="post: 398588" data-attributes="member: 31330">I've got my view upon it.I don't think practice is the important part, although it makes perfect, but experimenting is.The problem with learning how to shoot, whether you use a book, tutorials or whatever, is that while they indeed can teach you how to take a decent shot, what they seldom provide is an understanding of what your cam is capable doing and what it can't. Experimenting provides you that. Instead of doing things as they are supposed to be done, or as the books says, you try whatever comes to your mind, change whatever settings you prefer and check the results. It doesn't matter that many of those shots will be bad if that makes you understand why they are bad. You'll occasionally stumble upon things that might not be in the book. Evidently you can do both simultaneously; learn from whatever source and experiment but lazy as we humans are, we often neglect the experimenting the moment we get what we want. However, during experimenting we could discover that we very much want this thing we not knew to be possible before we discovered ourselves.These days the basics are simpler. You have to know how to expose correctly. If you don't meter light yourself, manual mode isn't that important unless you go beyond the capacities of the cam's lightmeter. Put it in A or S and either use auto-ISO or manual ISO. The cam will use the setting required for the other to expose correctly. Correctly as what the cam considers correct.Then try things. It doesn't matter what. Just try something, find out what it does and whether it works or not and then try something else.In the end you get an understanding that goes beyond how to take a good shot.</blockquote>

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