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I became interested in photography in the spring of '98. My brother was into it and I would play with his gear when he was home. I would bug him to no end with questions about the gear, how it works and why you would do this instead of that, etc, etc. By the begining of the summer my brother and parents had suffucient evidence of my interest in photography to give me a camera for graduation.

I started with a Canon EOS 10QD and a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens. Both were more than sufficient for somebody who doesn't know the difference between an f-stop and focal length. My brother would be the poor person I drilled with questions. After several times of explaning aperture and f-stops, shutter speeds and focal length, I began to understand how everything worked with each other. How one piece of the puzzle set certain parameters for the other pieces to fit. If they didn't or couldn't fit you would either have a bad picture or no picture. The main benfit I had when I was learning the basics was shooting with my brother. It's like having your own PGA Pro to go with you on the course. Helping you, sizing up the shot, and telling what your doing wrong and what you are doing right.