Arly, I'm a photographer's daughter and pretty good myself. My advice: buy a good 35 mm (through-the-lens) camera with close-up lens and ring flash in a decent photo store. Consumer Reports frequently rates camera - start there for brand and price information. A decent camera can be less than $200, the lens $50-100, and the ring flash around $50. Sometimes you can get excellent buys on used equipment from a photo store. Buy a few rolls of inexpensive color print film and experiment taking pictures of color photographs tacked onto your wall - distance, exposure, etc, following the charts on the film packaging. Write down your experiments, and after the film is developed you'll have a sense of your skill. Keep practicing till you can get the picture in focus every time, and the color balance right. Then repeat this using non-threatening body parts such as family members' faces, shoulders, fingers, inside the mouth, etc. Keep good notes. When you're ready, get good print or slide film ("color" means print or color negative, "chrome" means slides or color positives.) and try the same skills on some practice clients who don't mind assisting your learning. Always get written permission from the mother to photograph her and her baby, and keep these on file. Another way is make friends with a medical photographer, news photographer, or take a photography course at a local college or trade school. Ask around till you find someone who can teach you at the basic level how to take good pictures of body parts. Dentists and orthodontists are often skilled at this kind of photography. Linda Smith, BSE, FACCE, IBCLC - grew up in a photography studio with all the chemicals and spotlights and thought everyone had a home business cause we did.