Just learning to shoot photos? Go manual, not auto

Beginning photographers often make the mistake of depending way too much on the automatic features in DSLR cameras, Peter Phun at PhotoCorrect says. He suggests learning in manual mode:

When you’re learning, the best you can do is to learn to adjust the settings on manual. That way you can figure out what you did wrong. Shooting on auto will not tell you much when you’re trying to troubleshoot. Programs that can read exif information which record shutter speed, ISO, aperture, White Balance are revealed when a picture is taken on Manual Mode but not so in Auto.

In this post, Phun lists nine more common mistakes that that beginners make.