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Your journey into photography starts with wonder & confusion, but asking for lists of ideal settings will not help you learn… nor will they ever really be truly ideal. Yes, there are some guidelines …

Prompted by my own answer to "Photographs cannot be taken" with manual lens and wireless triggers with off-camera flash & in reference to How do I take the right exposure quickly with Nikon D5300 and old … Is there a good reason that my camera, a D5500, can't use the exposure meter with a manual lens attached? …

Exposure stack - Bracket/HDR Bracket the exposure; one for the main subject, foreground etc, one for the shadows & one for the sky. … You can actually push an HDR look from a single exposure using appropriate software, though it's not quite as good as bracketing then merging afterwards. …

exposure allowing for the previous two settings. … [I also have a focus/exposure lock button, but I don't often use it, as it disengages every time you let go.] …

If you can get in there beforehand & do some tests, that will benefit greatly. You need to check for several things... that the camera can even find focus in low light, especially if your subject i …

Anything that wasn't safely back in the film canister may be lost, certainly anything directly in the camera back & not wound onto either spool. You'll find out precisely when you get the roll develop …

However, on the exposure, that halo became darker than the surrounding sky rather than lighter. …

Separate answer, just to show confirmation of scotbb's diagnosis. CaptureNX-D with Active D-Lighting overridden. Screen shrunk just to show relevant info. As to whether or not it's an optical illu …

It's probably pulled the entire film inside the canister, leaving you nothing to grab to re-spool it. You have no option [short of dismantling the canister in total darkness to get the the leader back …

More an addendum to Hueco's answer than a stand-alone... In very high contrast scenes, unless you're going to bracket your shots for HDR, then it's better to err on the dark side. Shadows can be reco …

I'd guess you're under-exposing a long way & the lab is having to work them really hard* to get anything like an image out of them; hence the amount of noise in them & no real blacks anywhere - but I' …

I'd call that a pretty good exposure guess by the camera. The camera doesn't know what you're taking a photo of, or which parts you might like to emphasise. It captures light, the rest is up to you. …

With no additional equipment, and if you had the time, waiting until the light faded outdoors would have been your optimum solution - though could get somewhat tedious, if that was lunchtime ;) Exposure …

I can't answer in regards to the camera itself, as I don't know Pentax at all, but… You're very short on light. f/7.1 1/25s ISO 12800 You can get away with 1/25s exposure time if you're on a tripod. …

The dog at the back is greyer than the one at the front - different exposure or different dogs; I don't know. Was it a traditional double-exposure? I very much doubt it. …