Christine, here is a number of ideas that came to my mind, numbered in
total randomness...
1. All shots you presented seem exposed ok to me.
2. K7 is more prone to burning highlights, therefore you might want to
go like this:
a. set it to spot metering
b. choose the point in the scene that you would want to be the
brightest, measure off this point, add a bit of positive exposure
compensation ('cause meter will make it gray, while you'd want it
brighter) and take a shot.
c. take care of the shadow areas in post
3. Why not to just bracket based on what your favorite metering mode
gives you?
4. Also, in K7 in liveview mode you can see the histogram in real time.
So you can probably be in hyper-p or hyper-m mode and play with exposure
by the histogram as you go. You might have to revert to manual focusing
though.
5. K7 has extended dynamic range mode, that proved useful to me, for
example, when I was in States this February and taking pictures in the
snowy park...
Personally, I'd simply take many shots and rely on my camera's matrix
metering.
Finally, cranking up ISO reduces your camera effective dynamic range
(easier to get blown highlights or totally black shadows), so perhaps
you might want to keep ISO below ISO 400...
HTH.
Boris
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