Photo 101 course - class 2 homework

I just did my homework for Thursday's photo class.

Morgan was such a ... er ... patient model!

We had to take a picture with these settings ... manual mode, ISO 400, aperture F/8 and shutter speed 1/125.  Here it is.

Then we had to take as many pictures as necessary trying to get the light meter at 0 (so the picture isn't under or over exposed). I didn't even know I had a light meter!

To have the light meter show it was properly exposed, I had to set the ISO at 100, the aperture at F/5.6 and the shutter speed at 1.6. But it's not properly exposed ... here it is.

So I took lots of pictures adjusting the aperture and shutter speed and here's my favourite. I set the ISO at 200, the aperture at F/8 and the shutter speed at 1/125 and the light meter showed it was under exposed.

Maybe it was because he was laying on a white mat which was on a black couch that was throwing it off.  I'll find out on Thursday ... we load our pictures onto Flickr and then critique them in class.