That's great that you're really getting into photography, there's nothing like working alongside other photographers to really get good critiques about both tec

That's great that you're really getting into photography, there's nothing like working alongside other photographers to really get good critiques about both technique and aesthetics. Just remember though, science will only get you a very short distance in photo, it's an art based mostly on intuition, so just try and get the science part to the point where you don't think about it so much, to the point where it's automatic. Some people take the science part of photography as being 90% of what it is. They shoot beautiful, extremely boring nature and studio photographs that no one really wants to look at. Be careful about overloading your brain with technical stuff, if you learn a bunch of new techniques, be sure to pare them down and keep sizable majority of your mental capacity available to relax and be creative.