{"id":1526,"date":"2011-07-11T09:44:07","date_gmt":"2011-07-11T13:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/?p=1526"},"modified":"2014-08-17T16:19:03","modified_gmt":"2014-08-17T20:19:03","slug":"get-to-know-the-f16-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2011\/07\/get-to-know-the-f16-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Get to know the F\/16 Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/2011\/07\/get-to-know-the-f16-rule\/sunny-day\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1528\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1528\" style=\"margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px;\" title=\"Sunny Day\" src=\"http:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Sunny-Day-150x103.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"103\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Sunny-Day-150x103.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/Sunny-Day.jpg 297w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>For a lot of us, landscape photography is one of our favorite past-times.<\/p>\n<p>It can get a little frustrating if we\u2019re not producing the standard of shots that we would like to however.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, there\u2019s a quick and easy rule that can save your daytime landscapes (or any other daytime shot for that matter), at least in terms of exposure and light.<\/p>\n<p><strong>It\u2019s called the f\/16 Rule and is sometimes known as the Sunny 16 Rule.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Quite simply the Sunny f\/16 Rule states that: On a bright sunny day, with camera aperture set to f\/16, the shutter speed will be 1 over the ISO value. eg when using ISO 100 , aperture set to f\/16 the shutter speed will be 1\/125 (closest to 100).<\/p>\n<p>So if you were using ISO 50 shutter speed would be 1\/60, and when using ISO 200, shutter speed will be 1\/250. \u00a0You get the idea. From this information you can derive other combinations that give the same exposure eg (f\/16, 1\/125s), (f\/8, 1\/250s), (f\/5.6, 1\/500s) etc. Less and less people tend to use this rule due to cameras with auto exposure etc, but knwoing and understanding this rule is useful to have as a starting point to roughly calculate exposures \u2013 cameras sometimes get it wrong!<\/p>\n<p>In bright sunlight, it is fairly easy for a camera&#8217;s light meter to be thrown off by light colored or shiny surfaces.\u00a0 For this reason, many professionals rely on the Sunny f\/16 rule in these conditions. \u00a0The rule\u00a0 works well\u00a0with both film and\u00a0digital photography.\u00a0 After you become comfortable using the basic Sunny f\/16 Rule, you can start\u00a0 making\u00a0 adjustments in exposure for sidelight (+1.0 EV), and backlight (+2.0EV) in the photographs you make in bright daylight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a lot of us, landscape photography is one of our favorite past-times. It can get a little frustrating if we\u2019re not producing the standard of shots that we would like to however. Luckily, there\u2019s a quick and easy rule that can save your daytime landscapes (or any other daytime shot for that matter), at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1528,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-photography-insights","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1526"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3598,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1526\/revisions\/3598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archimediastudios.com\/corporate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}