You've probably taken photos before, we all walk around with cameras in our pockets now. But you want to start doing photography, taking it a bit more seriously, or at least taking *better* photos. There's lots of advice out there on how to learn photography, from lots of different people. And a lot of it is different. So which should you listen to? Mine, clearly, if you're here. Well, ok, maybe not. The real answer is probably that it depends on how you learn things best, and what you want to learn. Do you want to do landscape photography? Portraits? Street photography? Do you want to understand the theory of photography, or just to take better photos? There's advice on most of these things here, but my general thinking is that you're best learning [[Composition]] first, because then you can take a decent photo with almost any camera, and it's probably the most important aspect. Knowing the theory of how [[Aperture]] changes your photos, and what [[Shutter Speed]] and [[ISO]] to use is important too, but if you know composition, you'll take decent photos while you learn the rest. Learn theoretical stuff first, and you'll take technically good photos that are still shit. Some people say you should start by setting your camera to fully manual, or you'll never learn what the settings do, and only allow the camera to take control of some settings when you're confident in what you want it to do, and know when it'll do what you want - making the camera save you time more than making decisions for you. And that does make a fair amount of sense, it's just not my approach. I'm pretty happy to let the camera do what it can, but know how to step in when it's not doing what I want.