Folks, this stuff has gone waaaay beyond serious. There are some critically important discussions going on right now over at editorialphotographers.com and APANet about the different ways that publications and other commercial entities are trying to undermine YOUR copyright to your images. I am prohibited from copying any posts here, but I urge you to stroll over to those forums [then come back!] and look through the posts from this week. Copyright is our lifeblood and there are people who want to take it from us. Forget about learning technique this weekend. Go and learn about how to protect your rights to make a living off of your work. DO IT. EP is a fee based forum.