If there are any questions you have, you can ask me anything. I started in high school, but have pursued photography seriously since then. It took me a long time before I bought my digital camera, and I spent countless hours learning about white balance and other things relating to digital. There's always more to learn. At this point, my weakest leak is postprocessing. I have learned a tremendous amount by looking at the forums at fred miranda.com. Pictures of dogs are in the people forums. Have you considered going to Nikon's one day workshops? There are two of them. I went many years ago to the Nikon School workshop. It is one day, but you learn so much. It is for people of all levels. I would also recommend Bryan Peterson's books, particularly Understanding Exposure. It is sold at Amazon. If you haven't read this book, I highly recommend that you get it. He also has online courses at his Perfect Picture School of Photography. Work slowly. Test out pictures using different apertures, and if you can spend a little time looking at the fred miranda forums in the areas that interest you, you will grow tremendously as a photographer. Also, check out the Nikon forum at fred miranda. They have a thread on page one or two (today page one) called Your Best Nikon Shot. The pictures are amazing. |