anyone here?

Luann, like everyone says, if you ask good questions here then you'll get good answers. But there are a few other things you can do to make the process work even better for you:

1. When you start a thread, give it a meaningful title. There are so many new posts every day, I tend to look for ones that I think will be interesting and I sometimes get really fed up with all the threads titled "Please help me". I'm sure I'm not the only one. So give your thread a good title and people will be able to tell quickly whether or not they can help you.

2. Don't ramble. Ask a specific question (or series of related questions) in a thread. Start a new thread for each question (or series of related questions). You will find out quickly, if you haven't already, that people here can be opinionated and can also be wrong. If you try to stay focussed, then that will help the discussion stay focussed.

3. Post your questions in an appropriate forum. Questions about your camera in the camera forum. Questions about lenses in the lens forum. Questions about wedding photography in the weddings forum. You get the idea. That way the people who know most about the particular subject area will be most likely to see your post.

4. Learn how to use the forum's search facilities, and use them before you ask a question. It's quite possible that your question may already have been asked and answered.

Based on your desire to learn to shoot so many different types of things I would suggest you just get out there and start shooting, or take one type of thing a day or week and try to shoot that and get good at it, understand it and get a handle on correct exposure in different light.
You'll make lots of mistakes, perhaps some happy accidents and in the process I think you'll learn a lot. Ask questions as you go and write down things along the way so you can remember to ask later.

StewartR wrote in post #2352105
Luann, like everyone says, if you ask good questions here then you'll get good answers. But there are a few other things you can do to make the process work even better for you:

1. When you start a thread, give it a meaningful title. There are so many new posts every day, I tend to look for ones that I think will be interesting and I sometimes get really fed up with all the threads titled "Please help me". I'm sure I'm not the only one. So give your thread a good title and people will be able to tell quickly whether or not they can help you.

2. Don't ramble. Ask a specific question (or series of related questions) in a thread. Start a new thread for each question (or series of related questions). You will find out quickly, if you haven't already, that people here can be opinionated and can also be wrong. If you try to stay focussed, then that will help the discussion stay focussed.

3. Post your questions in an appropriate forum. Questions about your camera in the camera forum. Questions about lenses in the lens forum. Questions about wedding photography in the weddings forum. You get the idea. That way the people who know most about the particular subject area will be most likely to see your post.

4. Learn how to use the forum's search facilities, and use them before you ask a question. It's quite possible that your question may already have been asked and answered.

All good and valid points. I agree that creating a post with a specific question as your Subject makes a big difference. The "please help me" post will get responses but it would be much better if it was something like "How do I correctly expose a hight contrast scene?".