Outdoor Photography : Outdoor Photography: Sunny F16 Rule

The F16 rule guides your aperture settings outdoors in bright sunlight. Learn how to shoot photographs outdoors with the F16 rule from a professional photographer in this free photography video.

Expert: Michael Seto
Contact: www.michaelseto.com
Bio: Michael Seto has been taking pictures for 25 years and works as a freelance photographer in NYC in a number of commercial imagery disciplines.
Filmmaker: Buccola Richard

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@Danieloncarevic

Listen to him. He's no saying that 1/100sec is a good speed to shoot with.

He's saysing that if you choose f16 on a sunny day you'll have to choose 1/ISO

as shutterspeed to get a proper expose. Rule of thumb. ;)

[weetsie]

shoot wide open...

IN BROAD DAYLIGHT

[Vic101able]

I don't like video

[eyveneenful]

I tested out some of your advice with my Canon T1i after watching this tutorial, I have a better understanding how these work and how to manipulate them for better outdoor photography. Thank you for this tutorial.....:)

[blackxthink]

@ShootingAugust

Im talking about the lenses.

It's sharper with smaller sensors because the sharpest spot of the lens is taking only the sharp spot.

While the fullframe show more so it's not as sharp everywhere.

but i still prefer full frames. (and medium format)

[ShootingAugust]

@blackxthink that's not true. Resolution is limited by diffraction patterns through the aperture. The larger the sensor size, the larger the diffraction patterns can be without having a noticible effect on the image (pixels are spaced further apart in this case). At f/11, the cropped sensor will be limited to about 7 or 8 MP maximum, where as a full frame is capable of resolving 16-17 MP.

[blackxthink]

@ShootingAugust

Well crop sensors are sharper than fullframes

But fullframe is better at high iso.

But my favorite is still medium format :D

[ShootingAugust]

@blackxthink Plus they still take better photographs then digital SLR cameras, due to the small CMOS sensor size (unless you can afford a DLSR in the >$5000)

[martinaee]

@pporter1 true, but you might want that huge d.o.f.--- That small difference usually doesn't come across except in huge prints or when pixel-peeping on a computer monitor.

[martinaee]

@Danieloncarevic

You have a larger d.o.f. at f16. Sure, MOST lenses have their "sweet" spot at around f/8 in terms of maximum sharpness, but you won't have as much depth of field so not everything will be in focus--- and therefore not sharp.

I assume you get that-- as your aperture (f-stop) becomes smaller your d.o.f. decreases. If you are assuming that you can reduce blurriness by shooting at 1/400 instead of 1/100 then you may be right depending on the conditions and how steady you are.

[stewiek]

nooo...not when u wanna throw your background OOF...depth of field doesnt apply here..besides, in a digital world, computer can control ur exposure for u..safe side, stop down an exposure on two on really harsh light..