For all you manual guys

I had a photography instructor who said that when he was working, he would go for lunch with his photographer friend, they would 'guess' the ambient light reading and the worst guesser would have to buy lunch (they always had a light meter with them). He said that they could eventually judge the light to within 2 tenths of a stop.

Ppffff, He totally checked out all the restaurants the weekend before. :mrgreen: And he would pay the busboy to adjust the dimmers, just to throw off his friends.
 
I hate to be blunt, but if you have to ask what baseline to use, you're not understanding what the different aperture settings can do for you, for instance, f1.4 giving you very shallow depth of field, and f22 the opposite.
 
There is such a baseline. The sunny 16 rule. Shoot at 1/ISO at f/16 To expose something sunlit without blowing it out.
My grandfather told me that when he gave me my first camera, an old 120. It has stuck with me ever since.
 

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