A few questions about photography?

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If you are a shooter, you will rarely use Photoshop.

Preparing the shot before pressing the shutter release is the key to brilliant photos.

If you learn how to balance ISO, shutter speed and lens aperture to produce nearly perfect exposures and use basic composition tools, all you need is a copy of Lightroom to process your RAW files. Lightroom allows you to batch image files, adding key words, custom white balance, copyright notice and contact information.

* Exposure
* Composition
* Use of light

These are the keys to shooting amazing photographs. No amount of skills using Photoshop can make up for failing to use those three elements in a well balanced ballet of your vision being translated by the camera

Links you will want to explore:

Exposure:

http://camerasim.com/camera-simulator/

Composition:

http://photoinf.com/General/Robert_Berda...Design.htm

Light you will have to learn to see for yourself.

Look for a good used dSLR. It will be the tool you need to learn how to create good exposures and later be able to add lenses that will enhance your capacity for shooting different subjects