I'll explain after a few people have voted but here's the deal, pick the two pictures you like best... none one of these pictures had any real thought or setup time but I need to basically prove to my wife that the "Auto Mode" sucks and I'm tired of hearing "you see mine look better" when they really don't. I'm not going to tell which picture is mine or her's but I think you can tell 
just pick the better looking pictures from these six:
Picture A:
Picture B:
Picture C:
Picture D:
Picture E:
Picture B:
We get into these debates all the time because she repeats what her aunt says which is "photographers are born not taught" which I disagree with... while you can't be taught to be artistic you can learn to use your settings better. I learn by trial and error mixed with reading and watching others so if I may take some bad pictures but I'm learning on every shot so turn of the freaking auto mode and learn the settings or hand the camera over to me... this is where we end up arguing.
The last two are the ones we are most different on even though it's not much different... the subject was not important, I was just showing how using a better mixture of settings would end in a better picture but she still feels the auto mode picture was better... what says you?

just pick the better looking pictures from these six:
Picture A:
Picture B:
Picture C:
Picture D:
Picture E:
Picture B:
We get into these debates all the time because she repeats what her aunt says which is "photographers are born not taught" which I disagree with... while you can't be taught to be artistic you can learn to use your settings better. I learn by trial and error mixed with reading and watching others so if I may take some bad pictures but I'm learning on every shot so turn of the freaking auto mode and learn the settings or hand the camera over to me... this is where we end up arguing.

The last two are the ones we are most different on even though it's not much different... the subject was not important, I was just showing how using a better mixture of settings would end in a better picture but she still feels the auto mode picture was better... what says you?
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