If you don't have any ideas, try setting yourself a project. It could be a movie scene, like xantor said, or maybe an album or book cover, a magazine page, some old snapshots you have - whatever grabs your fancy. But to start off, keep it fairly simple. The point of starting a project is to finish it, so if it's something too wild, you'll probably give up in disgust. The other point is to give yourself a goal, and long the way, to learn things. Almost certainly, you won't know how to do everything you need to recreate a scene. So, get as far as you can, then come here and ask. Another thing you should do is break it down into sections. Deal with people, props, posing, lighting and cameras all separately. Add your figures and clothes, then the props, then start posing and positioning. After that, add your light, then sart looking at the whole scene with different cameras, focal lengths and POVs. mac