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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dave_W" data-source="post: 141882" data-attributes="member: 9521">Here's my suggestions. Concentrate on your camera's owners manual. Learn about each button and menu option over and over again until you're an expert on your camera. In the meantime, take the camera out with you everywhere you go and take lots and lots of photos. Throw the images away that you don't like and keep the ones you like. As you continue to learn the functions of the buttons on your camera, try using some of them now and then but continue taking lots of photos and only keeping the photos you like. Try using a long shutter exposure vs. a short exposure, a wide aperture vs. a small aperture, and so on.At some point in your reading and researching you'll read a book on what makes a good photos good (composition). When you read these suggestions (some call them rules but to do that shows your naivety on the subject of photography) look back at your pile of good photos and see which, if any, align with the photographic suggestions. If some of them line up with one or more of these suggestions, then run with it. If none do, then try incorporating a few into your shooting and see if it does or does not make your photos more interesting. And again, keep the ones you like and throw away the ones you don't like. But whatever you do, do not accept anyone's opinion about your photographs unless they're paying you and you're providing them with the product. Because the only person you're making these images for is yourself and if you like what you produce then you've been successful. Otherwise you're photography will quickly begin to look like everyone else's photography and the last thing the world needs is another photographer who produces photos that look like all the other photographers on the planet.</blockquote>

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