That new camera sitting in your hands looks great and feels great but you feel like you're lacking the knowledge about how to take really good pictures. It's a great camera and you're worried you won't do it justice.

Well don't worry; we'll help you come up with some decent snaps for your photobook with this quick three-tip guide for beginners that will surely add to your point and snap repertoire.

Get to know your camera like you would a book. In other words, read the manual! We often rip off all the plastic wrap, toss the instructions away in a drawer and start snapping like we're the greatest thing since Steve McCurry or Alfred Eisenstaedt.

The more au fait you are with the tech, the better you know your camera and the better your shots will be.

Use a tripod, especially if you have an SLR. No word of a lie you will notice a difference straight away. A tripod forces, in some ways, solid composition. With hands, especially inexperienced hands, composition gets tossed to the side as the focus is on capturing an image instead of a "good image".

Keep snapping all the time and some things will work themselves out. Never leave home without a camera and take an image of anything and everything, even the most mundane thing, like a broken window or a nondescript bench.

When you look back on them, something quite amazing may transpire from these so-called mundane images.