In this post, I just to wanted to give you some simple tips that will help you get the best results from your camera, especially in the early stages of your photographic journey.
What follows are just some of the many things that helped me immensely in the beginning, I hope you will find them just as helpful 
.
Photo Tip 1!
When you come across a good place to take photographs, try to visit it again and again. You’ll find that your images will improve each time that you return, because you’ll get to learn the best times and subjects to photograph.
Photo Tip 2!
Believe it, or not, some of the best photo opportunities may be in your own backyard!
Explore your garden for details, shapes, or even colors that might make good images and give them a try. If you’re lucky enough to have a flower bed, planters, or even a tree in your garden, you’ll be surprised at the number of different animals and insects that visit your garden.
Photo Tip 3!
Use the Internet to learn where and when to shoot. One of the best places to start is Flickr.com. Simply type in a destination and you’re given links to photos and photography ‘Groups’, containing many images that will provide all the information you need to find wonderful places and subjects to shoot that will suit your interests.
Photo Tip 4!
When you know that you’re going to share a photo online, you don’t need a high image resolution (Printed images usually use resolutions of between 240-300 pixels per inch(ppi). Images that are being displayed online only need 72 ppi, Try cropping a detail from a large image before you resize it for the Web. A small bird in a mostly blue-sky at 300 ppi, can become a large bird that fills the frame when it is cropped and the resolution is adjusted for the Web.
Photo Tip 5!
The more you learn about and use the different features on your camera, the more possibilities you’ll have for creative control. However, it’s quite likely that at some point you may forget which settings you have changed and may then shoot using the wrong settings. You can use your camera’s LCD review to make a quick check of simple things like exposure and white balance. Check your manual and learn how to quickly check other settings, or how to set them to the defaults in order to avoid shooting with the wrong settings.
Photo Tip 6!
If you want to get the best possible pictures from your digital camera, the RAW format is the best image format to use. RAW images reflect exactly what the camera sees. The camera doesn’t tamper with the image at all. Items like white balance, contrast, saturation levels, sharpening, and other settings, are not applied to a RAW image file. Then, after you shoot, you have control over these settings when processing them with a RAW image converter, Lightroom, Aperture, Photoshop Elements, etc.
The main drawback to using RAW, is that the camera takes slightly longer to process the file, so if you like to take images that require a fast shutter speed, Motor Sports, or Power Boat racing, for example, you may not want to use RAW.
You can shoot more JPEG images in a row compared to RAW before the camera has to stop in order to catch up.
Photo Tip 7?
If you decide to take your photos in JPEG, reducing the image resolution so you can store more photos in your camera reduces your ability to crop photos later and therefore the opportunity to get the largest possible prints.
Memory card prices are very reasonable now for high storage capacities, so try to buy either extra cards, or bigcards so that you can store your images at the maximum image resolution. This will help you avoid taking a prized shot only to find that is too small to make a good print.
Photo Tip 8!
You generally get the best picture quality by using the lowest ISO setting your camera offers, this is usually ISO 100, or 200. A high setting, such as ISO 1600, or 3200 will have considerably more digital noise.
Although digital noise is generally an unwanted characteristic of a digital photo, you can, on occasion, use it as a creative design element. Some photographers often use noise (In the film days it was grain), to add a romantic look to their people and travel photos.
Photo Tip 9!
It is possible to add an attractive color tone to a photo by adding a preset white balance setting. For example, using a cloudy white balance setting can add warmth to an otherwise cold, or blue-toned scene.
Photo Tip 10!
Once you have your digital camera, try to get a good-sized memory card, or extra smaller ones (prices are very reasonable now). Taking photos nowadays costs nothing; in the days of film, every shot would have to be developed and printed, before you could see your mistakes, so get out and shoot as much as you can. This is definitely the best way to become a better photographer. Try lots of different exposure settings and compositions, etc., compare them in the LCD, and remember…. shoot plenty of photos so that you have a choice among them.
That’s it for this post, Happy Shooting
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