The project for Day 2 of the 7 day landscape tutorial is to "Learn how your camera's metering reacts by taking a series of images with different amounts of sky in the frame. Then assess whether (and why) the pictures are under or overexposed."
Today turned out to be a bit better than yesturday, despite the spells of showers and even hail! I managed to grab 2 shots for this tutorial.
Here are my results and analysis:
This photo of an ancient burial site outside of Inch Castle in County Donegal was taken at f/8 and 1/200s at ISO 100.
This photo was taken at f/8 at 1/550s with ISO 100. I used aperture priority mode for both photos. Now, this is where I get confused. Both photos were neither over- nor under-exposed, possibly because of the cloudy sky. Both photos' histograms show very little highlight detail and a great deal of shadow detail. The first photo detail is almost all on the left side of the histogram, with just some highlights and midtones. The second photo, however, has slightly more midtone detail than shadow. (I wish I could post the histograms to show what I mean). Now, I don't know if this is because I used exposure compensation (EV+1) or not. So, I don't think I can come away with any lessons here. Does anyone else have any idea what is going on? You see now why I do tutorials and not write them!
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