John Hedgecoe's Photography Basics is a good place to start to learn how to take better pictures.
Hedgecoe does start from the beginning, including a discussion about choosing the right camera. Some of the information is a bit dated because there is no section on digital cameras as a choice, but what he says about film cameras can be applied to digital cameras.
The lessons on photographic processes all still apply, and there are some neat tricks that are explained.
The sections are all accompanied by colour plates to demonstrate the techniques.
I have one concern with the book though. I found it had a confusing layout. Even though each discussion was accompanied by an appropriate picture, the placement of text and picture was not consistent. It had more of a 'scrapbook' feel to it, rather than a text concerned with a logical, consistent layout.
The last section of the book detailed some common problems in photography and would be helpful for the beginning photographer.
I liked the discussion on cropping your subject matter, and the above picture demonstrates an unusual composition as well as highlighting texture, two topics dealt with in this book.
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