For me my blog has always been focussed on the pictures I take, this is also reflected in the blogs I love to read. Beautiful, artistic photos always draw me in, and whilst my blog at first didn’t have amazing pictures (thank you iPhone4) as it’s grown and developed this year as I’ve broken out the DSLR a heck of a lot more. So when Joe Blogs invited me to the Lights Camera Currys Workshop the other weekend I could not refuse, I use my DSLR but auto mode is a wonderful thing, however this workshop promised to take me off auto mode. So a couple of Saturday’s ago I packed my unbelievably heavy camera (another reason iPhones can be wonderful) and off I went to the Manchester Photographic School in the Northern Quarter for a day of bloggers, photos and fun.

First of all we sat down and Christian from…