It's Harder Than It Looks

So this weekend we had a "field trip" with our Architecture Photography class, our second one, woo hoo, I do love field trips.  Getting out with your camera and actually taking a damn picture instead of just talking about it!!  That's my thing, hands on, I learn by doing, as far as the technical aspect I'll be the first to admit I SUCK, but I still take a not bad picture, I shoot in manual and understand my settings...but I regress :).....This is our second field trip of the season, the first being "exterior" shots where we all met at City Hall in Hamilton, yes City Hall, I know, I know there are much nicer places but not our choice and apparently there is something special about the architecture and the time period when it was built that makes it special and talked about by.......well, architects I guess.....but I still don't get it.  Although I got some kick ass reflection shots,

but again I regress......so this trip was "interior" shots at Christ Church Cathedral and it is admittedly an gorgeous church inside, but also and this is in our teachers words "a nightmare to photograph" because of the different types of lighting.  Now I was aware of this because I had done shots inside a few weeks earlier and the green color cast is almost lime green and makes the picture pretty much a candidate for b/w and that's it.....but also because I had been there before I was fairly confident I would be able to get the "2" shots required for the assignment with ease and get a cool Facebook album out of it as well......One must be documentary style, showing 2 sides of the interior and the other can be artistic of you like.  You would think at my age I would know that when I think it's going to be a piece of cake, I am going to walk away with NADA!!!!  I took 144 pictures and I am hard pressed to find one that I am happy with.  Now I admit I can be overly hard on myself and I want my pictures to look like they could be in a magazine, in fact I want people to look at them and say "those should be in a magazine", but not so much at the CCC this weekend!  I do have a few favorites of the day but I'm not sure the coffee pots

or Sue and I in the bathroom mirror would cut it for the assignment :)....hehehe.