What's one piece of advice that you'd like to pass along to intermediate amatures?

What's one piece of advice that you value about any aspect of photography that you'd like to pass along to intermediate level amatures?

Never forget that you were "new" once and share your knowlege.

Check your ISO before you start shooting!
STOP and Think!

1. Until the day you finally stop taking photographs, you'll always be learning. Pass it on when someone asks.
2. You don't take a photograph, you make it - Ansel Adams.
3. Practice, Practice, Practice.

For the intermediate amateur: your goal now is to become confident in your work. Know your equipment inside out. Know your techniques for whatever type of photography you enjoy. Quit making excuses like "you never know when (fill in the blank)" or "just in case". Be bold enough to take pictures that might not turn out, and be bold enough to write them off if they don't.

It seems to me there are a lot of people who don't do any more than hope that their photographs happen to turn out well, and who rely on postprocessing to try to salvage them when they don't. This is understandable for the beginner, but not for the experienced photographer. You should expect your photos to turn out well. Some won't—you're human—but learn from the flops and don't waste your time regretting the missed shots.

Shoot in M and master exposure. You'll save yourself hours of wasted time in front of a computer and your images will look excellent.

As I've heard, photography is about depth of feelings, not depth of field.
Remember that composition, timing, and use of lighting to convey emotion is what photography is about. Not how sharp a lens is or how shallow you can get the dof to be.

photography must be your passion. There is to much money and time that goes into photography for you to not have a passion for it.

Also, pay attention. Pay attention to your surroundings, to your subject and to your settings.

slow down, make sure you're in control. Many times i rush to make peopel happy and i make mistakes that way. Take your time.....

So much good advice here, it's hard to come up with anything.

1) Take the time to enjoy it, and (advice already given), learn the craft as it will help greatly in the enjoyment part.

2) Tee Why's advice is very good; knowing the craft (technical aspect) inside out frees the feelings from being tied down to the technical part.

3) Don't be afraid to "stretch the box"; that's when creativity starts.

good advice!

cosworth wrote in post #3681824
Shoot in M and master exposure. You'll save yourself hours of wasted time in front of a computer and your images will look excellent.

I would say, master PP. you can turn any ordinary photo into an work of art.

Whenever you start to get too good at whatever you're doing, learn to do something new. Don't stop doing what you're good at, but keep on expanding (this is why a bunch of off-camera lighting stuff is starting to show up in my sig )

go from just looking to seeing, when u shoot for long enough, u can tell what the shots going to look like when u shoot it. No need to preview or worry whats going to look like on your computer, you'll just know!

so, keep shooting!

Think & talk about light, not equipment.