learning photography from 0, I mean zero of anything photography related (camera phone, webcam, etc.)
Really had no idea what aperture, ISO, shutter, etc. was.
Still remember the time around April 2011, bought my 1st camera ever, Fuji HS20. Thought it was so great (got lots of hope).
2.5 years later after tens of thousands of exposures of various digital cameras and thousands of pages of photography literature (electronic & paper), yet I am still learning.
Nikon does provide great imaging tools, but Canon that really helped me learning manual mode easily & quickly, maybe it’s like “user friendly apple machines” vs “oh so useful-powerful PC”.
Currently honing the very basic skill of exposure like “Sunny 16 rule”, be confident & trust ur eyes for manual focus, 10 different POV of a subject, etc.
Indeed, in photography you gotta have ur brain up & running all the time (even) with (smart) DSLR in ur hand, it’s the process of learning that counts (and fun), not the full auto snapshot.
Started out doing photography at the age of 6 using an uncle's old 1940 kodak brownie box camera. At 15 years of age, I decided to buy my very own 1975 Praktica SLR camera. I now shoot with a Nikon D850. I do unpaid TFP and commercial paid work.