The reason for writing this post was not to show you why you should never be a photographer, it’s to show you the pitfalls that await you when you decide to take it on, and what you should avoid when trying to start a professional photography career. Hope it helps.

If you were to sit down and learn how to use everything on your camera in one sitting, you’d be completely lost by the end of it. Cameras are pretty complicated and take time to fully understand, so take my advice and start with these 10 easy steps and you’ll soon pick the rest up along the way.

Autofocus is often not the most reliable tool for focusing when the subject is at the side of the frame. Focal lock is built into all modern digital cameras as a way of correcting that; it allows you to select what you want to focus on by pointing at it and then moving your camera back to how you had it composed previously.

This post is all about taking better photos indoors, using an external flash. It covers the advantages and disadvantages of using different shutter speeds and apertures.