#1: Before you go to take pictures make sure your camera is working properly and make sure you have a extra battery.
#2: Keep your lens clean make sure you have a cloth or lens cleaner before you go to take pictures your shirt doesn't work very well.
#3: Get a camera bag or case to carry you gear in camera lenses get stuck alot because people don't have cases for them and dirt and dust jams the lens.
#4: Be creative the difference between a ok photographer and a great photographer is not the camera or the gear its you you have to be creative find things you like to photograph and take pictures of it be creative and find things that capture you eye.
#5 have fun don't think about what picture will your friends like or some one else will like find things that you like and want to photograph.
