I am still not clear on what benefit using Spot metering brings, apart from when you are shooting a backlit portrait and want the subject exposed correctly. I understand it's useful to focus on a grey point to get the exposure when you are shooting dynamic extremes, but my camera (Nikon D5000) copes very well with matrix metering, and I can still use it to focus on a grey point. Using Spot metering seems to me to cause exposure problems...so it might be that I need to do some more work on this.
I think I fulfilled the brief, but, have I fulfilled the Assignment criteria?
Development of technical and visual skills
I think the only photograph that demonstrates a real improvement in technical ability is the Thames Barrier big stopper shot: (this one is cropped to show what it would have looked like if processing had been allowed):
Quality of Outcome and Demonstration of Creativity
Again, I think these images are of a study quality rather than a coherent piece of work, or an attempt at producing original thought. But, that seemed to me also to be the nature of the assignment. Of all the images submitted, I think the one above and also this one shot in Reykjavik are the best in terms of producing Landscapes photographs.
Context
I didn't bring context into this assignment for the reasons stated above. If I did decide to reshoot the entire assignment, I would perhaps produce a study on a theme that all four categories will be relevant to.
I also thought back to some images I'd taken previously that showed good treatment of dynamic range (all matrix metered):
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| Paddington March 2013 |
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| From Broadgate Tower October 2013 |
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| Castlerigg Circle December 2013 |
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