Headshots

ISO-400

f/8.0

1/250

ISO-400

f/4.5

1/200

The first picture is the worst picture of 32. At first when I started I had the aperture mixed up. I thought that shooting wide open was the largest number, but it wasn't. I shot many pictures with 8.0 before I realized it was wrong. I also had my subject to close to the background. Instead of having a deep shadow I had a very shallow shadow. Another thing wrong was I had her facing the camera straight on. I didn't know at the time the subject couldn't be square to the camera, they have to be at an angle. I learned to not trust the bar on the side of the camera. The bar on the first picture said it was exposed right, but the histogram told me I was underexposed. 

The second picture is the best one. The background is not clear and precise, which is what I was going for. She is not square to the camera and the shadows are deep. I ended up moving my subject to the place in the second position because of the shadows. The exposure is in the middle of the last quadrant of the histogram.  

After all the hard work I finally got the picture I wanted. I think the photo turned out exactly the way I had been wanting all the time I was shooting the 32 pictures.