(19 Apr 2016, 8:42 pm)Jimmi wrote Me and my camera haven't co-operated at all today, various photos have not turned out well at all, many of them have been blurry, the camera has focused instead of taking the shot at times and on the photo of the Coast and Country on the 265 the colour came out distorted.
I am extremely angry about this and things have not been going well recently and it's causing me more stress than joy these days, not helped by the fact I now have to guess shutter speeds and stuff to catch the destination screens and have to ensure the photo doesn't come out blurry and usually fail at achieving this.
I honestly don't know what to do anymore and things seem to just be getting worse and I'm now at the stage where I feel it's a waste of time trying different stuff such as scenic shots as chances are it won't turn out and I don't want to be wasting my time with it.
Anyone got any suggestions or advice as I'm about ready to smash the camera the mood I've been in with it recently.
I'd suggest, if you're going for largely one off scenic shots, it might be worth using the automatic settings more often. You might not get the best photos, but they're less likely to fail completely, so long as you're not contending with difficult lighting conditions or very fast stretches of road.
The time to play with your manual settings and become re-acquainted, if you're finding yourself getting it wrong frequently, would be somewhere boring and predictable - even North Road roundabout! The point being that you can keep playing about and experimenting to find out what really works and what doesn't - the worst outcome here is that, by experimenting, you've fouled up half a dozen workaday shots of the 20/20A rather than that once in a blue moon drifter trundling through Wingate on the X7.