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If you have been following my blog posts about the 52 Week Personal Art Challenge you may remember the notebook suggestion.\u00a0 The suggestion was to carry a notebook and write down what camera settings you are using when learning how to use the camera off the Auto program.<\/strong><\/p>\n In the past I would often take a quick shot of the ground when changing from one setting to the next.\u00a0 Since I wanted to try more than two settings and my camera was on a tripod I decided to put my hand in front of the lens and take a shot of that.\u00a0 Keeping my changes in order from Macro (close-up) to the Program mode to the Aperture mode and back to the beginning Macro mode I thought that I would be able to know what setting I had used when looking at the thumbnails on my computer.\u00a0 It was a matter of always using the same order of settings.<\/strong><\/p>\n However, I also experimented with the focus and totally forgot when and how I had changed those settings!<\/strong><\/p>\n Did I get any photographs that I could process and upload?\u00a0 Yes.\u00a0 <\/strong><\/p>\n Did I get many more photographs that were pure crap to be deleted immediately?\u00a0 Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n Did I learn anything from this week\u2019s experimenting?\u00a0 Yes.<\/strong><\/p>\n Lesson learned: take a notebook and write down when you change settings of any kind if you want to learn what settings work under certain circumstances (like lighting or wind, etc.). <\/strong><\/p>\n Because, believe me, \u00a0there is no way to remember what settings you\u2019ve used on all 100+ photos that are taken each day with seven days in a week!<\/strong><\/p>\n