How many times have you been unsure about how to set your camera for the present shooting conditions, or how to compose the picture?\u00a0 Odds are there is a “rule of thumb” for that situation, and you may already know it, but just didn’t bring it to mind.\u00a0 This week we’ll remind you of some of these “rules” (actually for the most part, they are suggestions) with the hope they will be of\u00a0use later.\u00a0 Some of these\u00a0“rules” are:<\/p>\n
The Sunny 16 Rule- <\/strong>Use this setting when you have bright sun and average reflective subjects.\u00a0 Set the lens opening at f\/16 and the shutter at the reciprocal of the ISO. ( that is 1\/200 for an example)\u00a0 If you’re at the beach or there is considerable snow,\u00a0also try\u00a0the same shutter setting with a lens opening of f\/22.\u00a0 On cloudy-bright days, use f\/11 with the reciprocal of the ISO for shutter speed.<\/p>\n When Photographing the Moon, <\/strong>again set the shutter speed at 1\/ISO,\u00a0\u00a0and for a quarter moon set the lens opening at f\/5.6.\u00a0 The lens opening for a half moon is f\/8 and f\/11 for a full moon.<\/p>\n When Photographing a Sunset, <\/strong>meter the area just above the sun without including the sun in the view.\u00a0 Stopping down 1 f-stop will make the scene look between a half to an\u00a0hour later.<\/p>\n To Avoid Camera Shake<\/strong>\u00a0when hand holding the camera, use a shutter speed which most closely matches the reciprocal of the millimeters of the lens you are using or faster.<\/p>\n To Make a Sharper Image\u00a0<\/strong>when the camera is mounted on\u00a0a tripod, turn the image stabilization off if the subject is not moving.<\/p>\n Use The Rule of Thirds <\/strong>to create a better composition. Imagine or place a grid of 2 equally spaced horizontal and vertical lines in your viewfinder that divide it into 3 equal spaces.\u00a0 Place your center of interest on one of the vertical or\u00a0horizontal lines or their\u00a0intersection\u00a0for a stronger composition.<\/p>\n This last one is not really a rule but rather an aspect ratio list. 1.33:1<\/strong> is what most Digital cameras are.\u00a0 1.5:1<\/strong> is a 4 x 6 print. \u00a01.4:1 <\/strong>is a 5 x 7 print.\u00a0 1.25:1 <\/strong>is\u00a0an 8 x 10 print (Which means part of the frame MUST be cropped to fill the 8 x 10).\u00a0and 1.272:1 <\/strong>is 11 x 14 print.<\/p>\n Some of this information was sent to Van\u00a0Wert Area Photography Club\u00a0members by president Stuart Jewett.\u00a0 Other information, and more, can be found at: www.blackcatphotoproducts.com\/rules_of_thumb.html<\/a>,\u00a0or www.taphilo.com\/Photo\/phototips.shtml<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Van Wert Area Photography Club’s next regularly scheduled meeting\u00a0will be on Thursday, July 14, at 7 p.m. at 114 S. Race St. in Van Wert.\u00a0 Visitors are always welcome.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" How many times have you been unsure about how to set your camera for the present shooting conditions, or how to compose the picture?\u00a0 Odds are there is a “rule of thumb” for that situation, and you may already know it, but just didn’t bring it to mind.\u00a0 This week we’ll remind you of some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cameraclub"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-23 23:36:34","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=77411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77411\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}