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>>118120 Study the work of Henri Cartier-Bresson, David Alan Harvey, Garry Winogrand, Robert Frank, and other photographers and visual artists in general.
For the moment, use the kit lens, but when you can get one, buy a normal prime, one in the range of 28mm-35mm. A normal prime approximates the human field of vision, so it's easier to learn composition with. Primes also force one to put work into composing the scene, because one can't simply zoom in and out.
Cartier-Bresson's work was done almost exclusivley with a normal prime. Others prefer slightly wider (Harvey, for instance) or much wider (Winogrand, for instance). Get a sense of what works for you while using the kit lens, and consider maybe getting that instead of a normal prime if it isn't one of those.
Google "hyperfocal distance" and set it if you can. Stop down to at least f/8 if at all possible.
Shutter speeds... try to keep faster than 1/125th, but motion blur isn't some horrible crime. One of the great advantages I've found of shooting with stabilization (which your K10D has on everything) is that it lets one drop the shutter speed while keeping the camera steady: motion blur can be used, but all the stationary things are still sharp. Experiment, play around.
But basically, shoot and study other visual art.
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