Here I was asked to produce photos that are deliberate darker or lighter then average.
White tulips:
In this photo I used a -2 steps exposure to make the background darker for emphasizing the white tulip.
Snow on the bush:
Here too I used a -2 steps exposures to emphasize the white of the snow against the green of the bush.
Outside:
Here I didn't know which exposure will be the right one so I took 5 shoots and learned that the -1 steps which makes the door a little darker and the contrast stronger is the right one.
Old snow
I tried to take a photo of a couple days old snow and used a +1 steps exposure to make the snow a little more pale.
Part 2
In this part I was asked to take 5 different photos, every one of then in there 5 different exposures.
As it was snowing, that was the main subject for my photos.
A crown of snow:
taken at the Sheldonian Theater at Oxford in the big freeze days. This is a very contrasting photo (the dark statue vs the very white snow). I have to say that I'm not satisfy completely with any of the photos in means of brightness and darkness but I will chose photo 4 which is one node darker (exposure +1) to be the best one as the statue is dark enought and still you can distinguish the snow and the sky.
Frozen spout:
Again in here there is the contrast between the white ice and the black water spout. I think that the closest photo here to what I have really saw is photo no.4 (exposure +1). It feets most te gray day I had and the colors that were around me.
Bicycle on the wall:
In this Photo I think that the middle photo (exposure 0) is the one that represent the most the brightness that day.
Guitar:
I decided to take photos inside to see the effect not in day-light. In this photos I think that the most representing photo is the exposure +1: the forth photo. The average exposure photo is a little to bright because of the light that come back from the guitar.
Shopping bag:
I tried to find subject that have an obvious b&w contrast and found this shopping bag. For my surprise in here too the best photo is no.4 (exposure +1). Is that means that in big contrast the +1 exposure is the better option?
And For the last part I gathered some photos from the textbook where the subjects are intrinsically very light or very dark:
- "Miss Thompson" by Clarence White and Alfred Stieglitz – very light
- "the vision" by Frederick holland Day – very dark
- "Down and out in Paris" by Robert Doisneau – very dark
- "Robert Frank, photographer, Mabou mines, Nova Scotia" by Richard Avedon – very light
