1. While you are shooting, enjoy yourself and be yourself. Don’t worry about being perfect, professional or brilliant. Shoot for love, and let your creativity lead you where it may without focusing so much on the “results.”
2. Become friends with your equipment. Understand what it can do, and what it can’t do. Practice until you don’t have to think about your equipment or your “technique.”
3. Learn how to work well with natural lighting first. Then, if you’d like, learn how to work with artificial lighting.
4. Look at the work of other photographers. What do you love? Consider what you can try that you have seen work well for other photographers.
5. On the other hand, think about what crazy, exciting ideas you can explore that are “out of the box” and you’ve never seen done before.
6. When you see your images, focus first on what gives you a little thrill, rather than what is “great.” Which shots feel like “your babies.” Define “success” as what pleases YOU.
7. Once you’ve picked out what you love, notice what doesn’t work so well for you. What happened with these shots? How can you shoot differently next time to achieve a result that pleases you more?
8. "Just keep shooting!"

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