Using the Sunny 16 Rule for the first time.....Nailed or Failed?
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2019
- In this video I take out a Praktica LTL camera and Optomax 135mm lens and try out the sunny 16 rule for the first time. Will I nail it or fail it?.......
Apologies for the wind noise! It wont happen again!
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Good job. I’ve been getting as much info as I can on the sunny 16 rule and this has helped. Also soon realised that I live in the same area!
When, as a kid, I first tried my hand with photography the only camera I had used 828 roll film and it came with a info sheet.... and it showed the basic "sunny 16 rule". That was all I had to work with. That was sixty years ago. I wish I could tell my pictures from my dads. They are just totally mixed with zero chance of dividing them. I am sure most of mine were not the best of the bunch!! You managed your F-stops well. Good walkabout.
I liked your shots, nicely done.
If you saw cows, I would’ve gotten right up to them. They usually don’t care.
For beginners:
Sunny 16 isn’t a hard fast rule, it is a guide. You are the artist. You decide how light and dark things are. It’s photography and that is an art form. Break the habit of being programmed by your iPhone that you need to just document what’s there, abstract the hell out of it if you want.
I take photos outside all the time and make things black on purpose. Doesn’t need to be level exposure for the whole frame, it’s art.
Sunny 16 is a guide. For me and where I am, in the woods, sunny day can mean f8 or f11, definitely not 16.
If you live in the Arizona desert your sunny is probably f22.
I’d you’re out in the open or not is a big difference.
The best way to learn sunny 16 is to put a light meter in your pocket. Take a shot with what you think the exposure is and then take another shot with the meter, see the differences.
Remember a meter turns everything to grey , not an artist eye, like ours. It doesn’t want clipped blacks, but you might. You need to see how to do that in your head.
Before histograms told us what was clipped or not and we changed things to take out the clipping, we blackened the hell out of things for drama and for art.
Keep it up
Only heard of this rule today in spite of having years of photography under my belt! Couldn’t really understand it from reading up on it, but your plantation made complete sense. Was very impressed that all your shots came out so well, none wasted on horribly bad exposure. The ones of your dogs and in the trees were lovely with plants of depth. I have an old rather nice camera that has sadly been neglected and that light meter battery cover no longer works. I wondered if there was a practical solution and sunny 16 seems to be it, as well as a very handy rule of thumb that will be useful for making photography fuss free. Instead of looking at fiddly stuff through the lens you are looking at what the world is doing around you, that seems to me to be a huge bonus.
Great job. I have been working on getting the rule down visually, but have not done an actual shoot yet. I will say while I was watching i felt a bit confused by your settings, chalking it up to not actually being there, I thought I dont have all the information you did. I was encouraged by the settings I was calling out during the video.
Thank you so much. I hope my test roll comes out half as good as yours. I'm encouraged by the fact that 1 f stop won't completely kill a shot.
I'll keep watching
HR.
Very helpful video, im still practicing mastering sunny 16. You provided a lot of info and your photos are amazing. Thank you
Great video having the sample photos as you changed aperture was excellent
Your ISO on a DX or APS-C dslr already takes into account the crop factor of the sensor and multiplification factor of the focal length of the lens. This means that the Sunny 16 rule (or overcast 8) works just as well on an APS-C camera as on a film or full frame DSLR. It's a great outdoor trick to get you in the ball park when shooting manual.
Thanks for the incredible & insightful video. I'm also learning the sunny 16 rule, but watching your tutorial has helped me to understand it a little me. P.S. Great looking dogs!
Brilliant
Greetings from France.
Very helpful video for me. Thanks a lot
I would say all your shots looked great to me. Artistry is in the eye of the beholder, as is beauty. Your dog's are awesome. It is cool how you captured and froze them playing. So... from across the pond, hi from New York!
They all looked good to me. I liked the over exposed look
Oh nostalgia is a terrible thing. I used to take my dog for a walk almost every day walking down that track, turn left at the end and down to the woods. I haven't been down there for about five years and certainly not since the NDR cut it in half. I also took hundreds of photo's down there too. If I find the time (when the weather gets better) I will go for a walk again. I can relive the frustration of walking down there, hoping that there might be something interesting to photograph, to find that 9 times out of 10 there wasn't!
It was just find for you took us into real situation of places and related light. Hope l do as well my first time .
Great pictures. They looked good to me. Do you have a video where you try it with color? Once again great job 👍
Thank you, unfortunately I don’t
Thanks
i came here for the test but i'm impressed by the beautiful sweet jazz music in background.what is the song's name?
lânchánđời nguyễn sorry I have no idea? 🤭
So Sunny 16 Rule means on a clear sunny day match your ISO and shutter speed to the same number and in theory your f-stop will be f16. (ex. ISO 100, 1/100 shutter speed, f16) or (ISO 640, 1/640, f16)
Nailed 😃😃😃
🤣🤣🤣 thank you 💋
it's better explanation with real case than just sit behind the desk. thanks a lot
B&W film has a very wide latitude and you could have shot everything at f8 or 5.6. I think people today try to micro manage exposure with spot metering, the zone system etc etc
Hi, can I ask on what iso should I use in night time? With streetlights? Without flash.. I have a konica autorex half/full frame and I also have broken lightmeter.. Thank you so much
Unfortunately you can not change the ISO with a film camera, unless pushing or pulling film
800 for pure night time
asa 3200 film.
it's better to overexpose than to under expose with film;
your negatives will have more information i.e. depending on how much you overexposed of course, but i think if you were 1-2 stops from F16, you are still good. Black and white film can handle a lot of overexposure. I would not try this with slide film directly, but then again if you have a good understanding and experience with your camera it is possible; back in the days they did shoot slide without lightmeters.
I agree 100%.....................................................
Hi mate, shutter speed you use?
Kev 500
We want more videos from different cameras
you over exposed for sure, if the sun shines through on your subject then stay at f/16.
That’s subjective. And it is better than underexposed since it keeps things flexible for printing. You can dark things all you want in an enlarger vs lightening blacked out things, but again it is art