Day photography tip - sunny f/16 rule
This article is about the Sunny f/16 rule which is a photography technique.
Noon is usually the brightest time of the day. This level of brightness makes using the light meter inaccurate. We can overcome this reliance on the light meter by applying a very simple rule. This photographic rule is known as the Sunny F/16 Rule.
Basically, this rule determines that for the bright noon condition, a useful setting is to set the aperture to f/16 and the shutter speed to that of the ISO rating.
For example. if your are using ISO rating 100 for the digital camera or ISO 100 film for a film camera, the shutter speed should be set to 1/100.
There is an exception to this rule. That is when the subject is bright white in colour. Under such a condition, using the sunny f/16 rule will result in excessive whiteness in the image. In this case, we may want to use f/22 instead.
Well, that all for the tip. Happy experimenting.
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This is an excellent tutorial on photography. I live in a tropical country and it is sunny most of the time. This tip is just ideal for me. Thank you.
Yeah… I must agree too. Very useful tip.