Look for and photograph in places that are both darker and lighter and use exposure compensation to get the look you want.

  • Take at least 10 shots that are lowkey – most of the tones are dark
  • Take at least 10 shots that are highkey – most of the tones are light

Backlight

Backlight is one of the most common challenges for the camera meter.

Take at least 10 photographs of your classmates or other subjects against the sky.

• Use negative exposure compensation to darken the subject to a silhouette.

• Use positive exposure compensation to brighten the subject and over expose the background.

Landscape/cityscape photos

The sky is much brighter than the ground. Take at least 10 photos showing a range of location shots of DUMBO, the park, the skyline with and without the sky. When your composition includes the sky use positive exposure compensation to take a second shot in which the ground and the buildings are well exposed ie brighter and the sky itself is overexposed.

Post your 5 best lowkey hots, 5 best highkey shots, 5 backlit shots and 5 cityscape photos to an album on Flickr.

Send your best of each to the class group.