When you are interested in photography and want to take a course, the first thing you do is buy a new or second-hand camera. Although in the classes they teach you how to handle it, they do not always give you advice on taking care...
It is sad to invest money in a good SLR camera and not be able to get anything but unsuccessful, ugly, and disastrous photos, one after another, due to naive oversights about basic rules of photography, rules that every photographer, no matter how beginner, should...