I would love to be good at photography, I did a multitude of photography projects at university but my frustration with the ridiculously complicated and seemingly nonsensical settings ends with me reverting back to the default automatic settings and a 'I'll crop it later' attitude. (Look I know most of you will think I'm being dumber than a rock here but I really struggle with the technicalities of taking a good quality photograph. Give a blank canvas and some paint and I can rustle up a better than average painting, give me an embroidery ring and some thread and I can produce a pug embroidery with sparkly thread dentures, hell I have other talents!)
So to improve my skills I set myself a weekend project; to take a subject that was continually changing, and not to use any automatic settings or flash. So here is the view from my bedroom, inspiring isn't it?
It was a struggle because I just don't retain this sort of knowledge but I started to get the hang of it having gone on something of a journey via the too bright:
Too dark:
All monitored by a watchful cat who just wanted me to naff off.
The learning continues...
