1. Read your owners manual, understand how your camera operates. Once you do this you will understand what everyone else is talking about.


2. Learn to see as your lenses see. As Bryan Peterson suggests----put any lens on your camera, then shoot, shoot shoot, crawl on the floor, shoot from high above, shoot from knee level, try all kinds of different perspectives with each of your lenses.


3. Ask questions--lots of questions---I have learned more from sites like this than any book I have read.