Twelve Essential Photographic Rules

Some of us tend to own more sophisticated cameras as well as our toy ones. I personally own a few film SLR cameras and a couple of rangefinders too.

I also have a few cameras that I would still classify as a ‘toy,’ but have a little more in the way of settings compared to the extremely simple Holga camera.

With this in mind, I thought it would be useful to post a link to a useful web page that I found recently. A page that is aimed exactly at the more advanced cameras that are in your camera draw.

Twelve Essential Photographic Rules

1. Sunny 16 Rule

The basic exposure for an average scene taken on a bright, sunny day is f/16 at a shutter speed equivalent to one over the ISO setting—that is, f/16 at 1/100 sec at ISO 100. From this you can interpolate, and try f/22 at the beach, f/11 on a cloudy-bright day, etc.

2. Moony 11, 8, and 5.6 Rules

There are many different rules that work well when shooting the moon. One favorite for a proper exposure of a full moon is f/11 at one over the ISO setting. For pictures of a half moon, use the same shutter speed at f/8, and for a quarter moon, use the same shutter speed at f/5.6.

Read the rest of the rules at Pop Photo

do you have any useful tips to share?