Quote Originally Posted by Frog
Sunsets and fireworks just about always require a tripod. Closeups or macros of things like butterflies do also.
I won't give advice because each situation is different. If you google shooting fireworks or sunsets there will be many sites with advice and probably for butterflies too.
The people that have to delete a lot are, for the most part, point the camera and hope it works types. When you learn the ins and outs which aren't much different than 35 film shooting, you won't have to delete so many, except that you might get really fussy and start deleting what can't be fixed in post processing or isn't perfect.
Welcome to the forums! Ask all the questions you want. Stick some of your work in the critique forum and you'll get good sound advice.
I was thinking about using google to do some searching. You can find anything on google.