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The former reserved for anxious times when you need to knead. The latter for when you have finally had enough and want to express your outrage practically. You heave them at your tormentors. Usually this does not result in injury or a gaol sentence.
Matters may not get to this pass if you can get some help with your photography. To this end we suggest:
a. Look up your local camera club and go along to one of their meetings. An AGM might be a bad choice, but any competition or lecture night should be good value. The Gem Club, The Workshop, The Northern Districts, The Mandurah - they're all good and there is likely to be one in your area.
b. Take an online course from a good institution - one that lets you work at your own pace but that challenges you to do better. If you enter into the spirit of education, generally you will do better.
c. Look at the Shoot Photography Workshops menu and find something that appeals to you.
d. Get out your camera manual and discover what your should have done in the first place. Camera makers have not always hired great writers for their instructional material. Langauge barriers and geography have prevented me from offering my services, plus every time I ring their door bells they hide behind the sofa. But you can still always benefit from a camera manual and/or a companion volume from someone like Focal Press or Amphoto.
Read for comprehension and try the things out on your camera as you do. There is a heck of a lot of unused capability in modern cameras that we gloss over. Some of the stuff is complicated toycraft, but some is actually useful.
If you have long ago lost your manual, you can chase reprints down on the net or come into the Murray Street Shop and see what there is in the book rack.
10 bucks won't break your pocket and there will be something in there that helps you out. While you are at it, look below and see what films are still available.
e. Talk to the staff. Not at lunch hour, please, but select a time early or late in the day when the trade pressure has eased. You can moosh on with gunna-doo and shoulda-done conversation, but if you really want to benefit, have real questions that apply to you nd ask them honestly. If you have devised The Question That Can Never Be Answered to make yourself sound big, reflect that no-one is going to be interested in answering it. And they won't be anxious about it. They've got rubber bricks and hamburgers to sort that for them.
