Basics of photography?

Question

does anybody know a site or something that could learn from.

my dads been into photography his whole life and its been wearing out on me. Im pretty much clueless on most things,but i know little stuff.

ive been shotting with a nikon coolpix 4500 and canon 20D

Answer 1

soaphoto.com

Answer 2

I can't imagine anyone better to teach you photography than your dad--and his lessons are free.

You realize by now that having a good camera (Canon 20D) makes no difference if you're, in your own word, clueless. The first lesson has to start from very basic.

I did the same for a friend & my nephew and they know exactly now how aperture relates to depth of field (and so on).

The first day we didn't even use their dSLR.  I showed them my Nikon FM2 (which is a film camera--and it's a completely manual camera--everything has to be set), and we played with that basically for the whole day until they learned what all the controls and dials were.

You can be successful if both of you (the teacher and the student, I mean) are patience. If you want to know everything in one day--it's just not going to happen--and he certainly can't teach you all he knows in one day either.

It takes time (like learning how to play piano)--but with practice, you'll be very please with the results-in time.