Would You be Able to Earn a Boy Scouts' Photography Merit Badge?

Believe it or not, but the photography merit badge—awarded to Boy Scouts who showed they'd studied and completed the tasks required—turns 100 this year. The requirements have been updated along the years, and are surprisingly complex:

This is the current-day requirements needed before a boy scout earns his badge:

Light-natural light/ambient, flash
Composition-rule of thirds, leading lines, framing, depth
Angle of view
Stopping action
Do ONE of the following:

It's pretty amazing to see the difference digital cameras have made to the requirements over the years. Take 1948's, for example:


Show that he is thoroughly familiar with the essential parts of a camera and explain the purpose of each of the following: finder, lens, shutter, diaphragm opening, bellows, focusing scale.
Understand the basic principles of composition, selection of background and handling of light and shade.
Name the chemicals found in one standard developing solution and one fixing solution, and explain their purpose.
Submit six good quality pictures taken, developed and printed by himself, putting into practice his knowledge of the principles in Requirement No. 2. (Not more than two pictures may be submitted from any one of the following groups, and the collection must include one from each group.)
GROUP A.. Landscape or water pictures.
GROUP B: Groups of persons or street scenes.
GROUP C: Person, domestic animal or bird; wild animal or bird.
GROUP D.. Architectural subjects.

So, own up—who feels confident they would earn the photography merit badge if they were a boy scout today? [Photo.net via PetaPixel]