How about a Photo 101

[ErikLS2]

I bought a good camera, a Nikon D7000, used off of Craigslist for about half. Then bought a really good book about it which broke down each and every setting one by one. It was more than overwhelming before that. Then, I just started taking pictures of things I liked at different settings to see what changes they made. One thing that has really helped me too was to look at the camera settings on other people's pictures that I liked. It's usually posted along with the picture on most photography web site forums like dpreview.com