";s:4:"text";s:3108:" This is a small, business card size (8,5×5,5cm) chart that you can print at home and throw to your wallet or camera bag. These days it is not used as much given the availability of high tech digital cameras but back in film days it was critical to ensure you had correct exposure. For example, a hazy sun will require you to close one stop to f/11 while an overcast day would require f/5.6. But it’s close. Normally, changing the f-stop would require you to also change your shutter speed to ensure an even exposure. Sunny 16 is a helpful rule even when it’s not sunny outside. I remember on my very first big assignment I had to shoot. Sunny 16 has been the backbone of my endeavours. Back in the day, I wanted to create an extended sunny 16 rule, that would cover other typical, available light conditions, other than just sunny weather conditions. An aircraft mishap on an aircraft carrier. My goal is to be able to use a camera fluently without a light meter. So far things have been progressing nicely. The Sunny 16 rule says that the exposure for frontal lighting in bright sun is f/16 at 1/ISO seconds (all Equivalent Exposures work too of course).
It works very well, and you can bracket (make exposures + or – one stop so you will have cover any variables—or sun going in and out). The f/16 rule popped into my head. So, Sunny 16 in bright direct sun with ISO 100 is 1/100 second at f/16, or 1/200 second at f/11, or 1/400 second at f/8, etc. I’m a retired US Navy Photographer.
With the Sunny 16 rule, disregard that. SUNNY 16 RULE ---EXPOSURE CHEAT SHEET This is a great rule to follow for outside natural light shooting. Sunny-16 Rule: when photographing in an open field during a sunny day; Slight Overcast-11 Rule: when the sky is variable; Overcast-8 Rule: cloudy weather, but not dark; Heavy Overcast -5.6 Rule: bad weather, maybe rainy; Sunset-4 Rule: for typical sunset conditions; Snowy-22 Rule: If the sun is shining over a snowy landscape, f/22 is the suggested aperture. According to the sunny f/16 rule, at ISO 100, BDE would be f/16 at 1/100 second, and at ISO 200, BDE would be f/16 at 1/200 second. During the past six months or so, I’ve been really into practicing manual exposures. The f/16 Rule (Sunny 16) is a God send.