As I teach A-Level Photography, I was fortunate enough to get a place on an exam-board run training course yesterday. Most training courses are a bit dull. We tend to get shoehorned into a small events room in some random hotel, to be waffled at by some bloke and his PowerPoint slideshows. Everyone goes to these for two simple reasons; it’s a (paid) day off work, and there’s free food.
This training session was different though. For a start it was in York, which is a really nice place, and secondly we were told to wander around taking photos of the place to practise our own photography skills. It’s no good teaching photography if you can’t do it yourself, after all. It was great, I go all sorts of places and wish I had just five minutes to walk around and take photos, but never get the chance. Yesterday I was being told explicitly to walk around for an hour and take photos.
I even learnt something too 
Use the histogram on your camera and try to make it look like a mountain or bumpy field, with no strange gaps or high spikes at the edges. Do this by adjusting the aperture and shutter speed.
