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There’s yet another argument. By paying attention to what you’re doing, you’ll get more good shots in the first place. Not only this, if a shot doesn’t quite work, you’ll probably have a much better idea what you need to do differently next time. And when you get a really great shot you’ll have much more idea what you did right. If you never go beyond ‘just’ point and shoot, you’ll never learn anything very much. And since cameras don’t learn either, your photos will never get much better.

Leaving everything up to the camera may give you a shot that ‘comes out’, at least most of the time. It’s less certain, however, that it will give you a shot that matches what you actually saw, let alone what you wanted to say. The key to this is understanding how cameras and lenses see the world, and relating that to how you see it.

Kayaker on Ullswater, Lake District (Jon) Although a lucky shot in the sense that the kayaker just happened to pass by, it did help that I was already shooting the landscape and had the exposure settings already dialled