Exercise - Measuring exposure

In this first exercise I have produced 4 photos which are darker or lighter than average.

 This shot is nearly all dark except the light from the low evening sun bouncing off my guitar. I wanted to achieve an atmospheric abstract which I was pleased with. There is much more dark than light in the frame, I used spot metering to take the photo.

 This is a view of chimney and pylon taken from the sand dunes in Hayle Cornwall. I wanted to balance the chimney with the pylon and incorporate the technologies from different eras. As the horizon is low in the frame there is nearly all sky and I had to be careful with the exposure to keep some detail in the clouds which resulted in the foreground being underexposed. This photo is lighter than average.

 Helping a friend with an art project I used low level sun light to pick out the detail in this miniature ceramic tile. I wanted to get a crisp focus on this but had to use a wide aperture so the depth of field is quite shallow but this adds to the artistic look so I am happy. The frame is lighter than average as the is far more 'white' background.

In this final photo of a sunset over Gloucester there wasn't much light about except in the sky where you can see. The frame is much darker than average and as the light was coming from one particular place the foreground is heavily silhouetted which adds to the dusk atmosphere.