One more GREAT piece of advice, which I didn't do when I was learning, you must learn the rules of photography before you can break them, or your will be highly disappointed because you cannot do what you are trying to achieve. You will see an image on the internet that looks amazing and you will want to try the same. You try and try, but realize you cannot figure out how they did that. its because they are breaking a basic rule of photography, but they have mastered that rule breaking.