Silly camera

Strange things can happen when you let the camera make decisions for you. Part of this week's challenge was "favourite colour". Okay, well, it's my fave, so I have several items in that colour. My initial idea was to make some sort of colour block collage... but this occurrence side-tracked me. This is the clipboard I started with:

But since I didn't really want the ugly orange couch, the carpet, etc, in the picture, I figured I would just zoom in to a solid block of colour - simpler than cropping - but not!!

I'm not certain if the problem was that I was blocking the light, or if it was just that zooming in on a solid block  of colour overly removed the context so the camera no longer had any idea how to process what it was seeing. The texture of the clipboard is essentially in focus, so that wasn't the problem. I'm not sure what was going on! But the outcome was neat, and an important lesson came out of it - pay attention to the colours the camera is showing you! If they aren't accurate, you may need to monkey with a few things to trick the camera in to seeing things properly.