Photography is a technology, is also the accumulation of experience.
1、Sunny 16 Rule. When there is no light meter, people should correctly estimate the sun exposure, so this rule is only suitable for using in sunny situation. The aperture sets to F/16. Shutter speed and ISO are in sync, or slightly faster.
2、Depth of Field Rule. When the back depth field is 2 times more than the prospect depth field, people should choose to focus in the first one-third of the Depth of Field, because of this, the Depth of Field is twice as before.
3、Megapixel Multiplier Rule. If you want to increase the resolution of the digital camera, it is very simple, is to quadruple of pixels.
4、Action-stopping Rule. The Rule is based on the experience formula of the Angle and speed. If objects move along the axis of the lens, you can use 1/125 shutter speed to capture, then it can chase for the lens axis movement capture 1/500 of a second.
5、Sunset rule. When coming to sunset, people should focous on the upper part of the sun, but can’t let the sun in your viewfinder. If you want to make sunset look an hour later than the actual, you can minus 1 in the exposure compensation.
Translated by Sophia