Depends on what you're doing. If you ever look at a broadcast type video camera, it still has only manual controls. Focus, Iris, Overall and individual R, G and B gains to set the white point, black level offsets etc. etc.
Probably lynched by Studland anchorers as his show on R4 was one of the first to suggest carbon sequestration.
I suppose it depends on whether you are someone who is visually aware or not. I see many people like you, if I am to believe that you are as bad as you claim. Their photos are based entirely on their interest in the subject. There is nothing necessarily wrong with this and many people take lovely photos of their family for example, which is a perfectly good use of the camera, whatever the professionals may sometimes imply. I started with a box camera when I was 13 and still have the original contact-print album. It is very obvious that even my first pictures are driven by their composition, so I think that my interest in composition is innate rather than learned.
I have no problem with that. It’s your camera, and taking diary or record shots describes what I do pretty well too. Whether you are concerned about the technical or artistic quality is also entirely up to you. I think that in general it is a pity that with so many people it is a pity that they don’t give their pictures some care, especially if they want others to look at them. At least I can say that it is a long time since I have had to look through an interminable show of slides of indifferent quality, ill-sorted, mostly dirty, and with every thirteenth one upside-down.
We were talking about normal ILCs for photography though. I agree that in a completely different subject my comment would not be relevant
I do not ask others to look at my photos. they are my private record. the only reason I might show one is for some technical point I wish to explain
Torturing my family and friends is a favourite sport of mine.
