lol ... nice first post. :-}
I agree, people here are pretty helpful, especially if you want critiques on your photos. However, you need to give us some clue as to what you want help on. You didn't specify in your post what specific aspects you are trying to learn. If you have never used a camera before and don't know the first thing about your new *ist, then yeah you'll need to read some books (starting with your camera's manual) and then come and ask specific questions about the finer points you're having difficulty with.
That said, I can recommend "Mastering Digital Photography" by David Busch. It covers photography and digital cameras from a fairly high level, but also gets into specifics of understanding the functions on a D-SLR and working with image files, and then discusses the various areas of photography -- scenic, portraiture, action/sports, etc. It's a good read for a beginner (which I'm not so most of it was too basic for me but I still picked up a few tips and tricks). |
