For some reason this text printed over the photographs for this exercise so I am posting this seperately.
In the photograph of the leaves I think all the photographs are acceptable apart from the first photograph which was over exposed by one stop. In this photograph the details in the lightest leaves have been lost due to over exposure.
In the photograph of the quarter of the waterwheel I like the middle photograph which was normally exposed and the two over exposed photographs as more detail is retained in the wall.
In the photograph of half of the waterwheel I think all images are acceptable because there is enough details in the light and dark areas of the photograph.
In the photograph of the mill I think the middle three photographs are acceptable. In the first photograph, over exposed by a stop the detail has been lost in the sky and in the last photograph, under exposed by a stop the detail has been lost in the dark areas of the photograph.
In the last set of photographs of the mill roof I think all the photographs apart from the first one are acceptable. In the first photograph, over exposed by one stop the colours are slightly washed out. I conversely like the under exposed photographs best as the colours are more saturated.
Overall this was a very useful exercise in measuring exposure emphasising the importance of having detail in the highlight and darkest parts of a photographs. It also illustrated that the results can be different depending on the lighting and subject.
