Lens Assignment

One exercise to improve your photography technique as well as the knowledge of your equipment is to attach one lens to your camera and use that lens only for a week or two weeks. Shooting everything and anything. This really expands your abilities, also if you use a prime lens such as the nifty 50mm, with its fixed aperture of 1.8 and better you really have to move around to get the best angle sometimes, even moving closer to your subject because you do not have a zoom lens. Now suppose you only have the kit lens or two kit lenses that came with the camera, these would usually be a short zoom and a telephoto lens, (sadly of variable aperture) What you can do is adjust the zoom ring to a specific focal length and leave it there, no matter how tempting it is to adjust your zoom don't! Practice this and it should really open up a new set of options for you.