Exercise: Measuring Exposure Part 1

For the first part of this exercise I had to take about 4-6 photographs which are deliberately lighter or darker than average and explain why.

This lock on this white garage door is a brighter than average.  An average reading here would have made the white door grey so I over-exposed to make it whiter and more realistic of what i was seeing in fornt of me.

I used spot metering for this shot to make sure that the brightness of the white was not lost and remained white and not grey.  This works well as it doesn't have a noticeable affect on the brickwork.  Therefore I didn't have to compromise the scene.

This section of a black wooden door was under-exposed to ensure it maintained the darkness of the wood.  An average reading would have made it lighter in colour and lost some of the texture.

This shot was over-exposed to show how this scene can be made brighter and give a different effect than under-exposing as in the example below.  Both these shots are more interesting as they give different versions of the same thing but adjusting the amount of light that enter the camera.