My camera --- my friend or my foe?

It drives me crazy when I finish a swatch and it’s all blocked and pretty, and I put the tag on it, and I take a picture, and when I look at the picture I see a glaring mistake. That just happened. I’m thinking I hate my camera.

Then again, I guess I can think of it as an extra objective set of eyes that can help me see my mistakes and improve. I could think that. That would be the mature thing to do.

But right now, I’m kind of mad at it.

I'm going to trash this

Here's what I don't like about this swatch:

1) I think the stitches are too loose.  I'm going to go down a size to 6. I did my level one swatches using a size 6 needle. I don't know why I changed to 7 on this level.  Bad choice, I think. 

2) There are a couple of rows (the third row up from the bottom on the left half and the middle row on the right half that are noticeably looser than the other rows. 

3) I don't like how the contrast thread is peeking through on the weave-ins and on the bottom third of the seam. This is probably a result of using too large of a needle for the swatches. 

So tomorrow I'll try doing it for the fourth time.