Sunny 16 Exposure Without a Meter: Part III

Posted on July 13th, 2011 by Neil Chaput de Saintonge
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There is a good chance that if you are using Sunny 16 and shooting in bright sunlight there will be a lot of shadows. As I discuss in Part I & Part II of my Sunny 16 article, this requires a little bit of exposure adjustment to maintain details in those shadows. This set of [...]

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Sunny 16 Exposure Without a Meter: Part II

Posted on July 12th, 2011 by Neil Chaput de Saintonge
Sunny 16

For those of you who missed Part I of my explanation of Sunny 16, be sure to read it. Once you have, please join the rest of us as we continue looking at when and how to use the rule of Sunny 16 to manually expose your images. This article will focus on exposing without a [...]

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Sunny 16 Exposure Without a Meter: Part I

Posted on July 8th, 2011 by Neil Chaput de Saintonge
Sunny 16

I use the Sunny 16 technique as the surest and quickest way to take the mental wrangling (or at least some of it) out of shooting when my scene is in the bright sun. For those unfamiliar with the term, Sunny 16 refers to a manual exposure technique in which you set your camera to use an [...]

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