Exposure triangle wall chart

[Free]

I decided I need something to help me remember exposure values and how they relate to shutter speeds and f stops (I think I can remember ISO). I thought I'd make up a little A4 wall chart to hang on my office wall.

As you can see on the attachment, I've also threw on the sunny 16 rule.

Questions are...

Are the values correct?
Any other rules/tips you think could go in there?

Cheers
Free

[Partsrept]

Originally Posted by Free

I decided I need something to help me remember exposure values and how they relate to shutter speeds and f stops (I think I can remember ISO). I thought I'd make up a little A4 wall chart to hang on my office wall.

As you can see on the attachment, I've also threw on the sunny 16 rule.

Questions are...

Are the values correct?
Any other rules/tips you think could go in there?

Cheers
Free

Please explain how to use chart. Give example.

[Free]

Please explain how to use chart. Give example.

It's mainly to help me remember the numbers, but to actually use it to achieve something you could do something like the following:

Start with the sunny 16 rule

iso 200 + f/16 + shutter 1/200 = correct exposure.

Say then I want to drop the dof down as much as possible so drop to f/4

That means I need to adjust the ISO and/or shutter speed.

If I've got the numbers right on the chart, I can then count the difference in EV from f/16 - to f/4 (4) and then make up the difference required by counting off 4 EV's in ISO and/or shutter speed.

Does that make sense?

I'm only a beginner at this sort of stuff, so this is mainly to help me learn and also to help memorise the numbers for full f/stops, EVs and the like. I think I've got the idea right, but could be horribly wrong, that's what I put it here to find out.

Cheers
Free

[sk66]

Your numbers look ok to me, but there IS a problem....Digital cameras don't exactly play by the rules.. They set intermediate ISO's and shutter speeds... Not all lenses use the "standard" f-stops.

It is a decent tool I guess but, to be honest, I've been taking pictures for close to 30years (off and on) and I don't have this memorized.... IMO, learn the relationships and the useful "rules of thumb", don't sweat the rest.

BTW, cudos for the creativity!

[Free]

Originally Posted by sk66

BTW, cudos for the creativity!

Cheers

Like I said, I'm mainly just wanting to have the full f stops and shutter speeds on the wall to memorise. As you mentioned digitals let you adjust everything by percentages so I want to get a firm knowledge of what the full stops are rather than just winding the dial until the camera tells me it's right.

IMO, learn the relationships and the useful "rules of thumb"

That's what Im after to scatter around the side Care to share some???

On a side note, I'm a huge fan of putting things on my wall to remember. I've got 3 or 4 pages of photoshop keyboard shortcuts, rgb colour hex values, typography scale chart and a heap of html, css, php, character entities etc etc etc. If I think I need to know something, I throw it on the wall and read it when I'm procrastinating at work

Cheers
Free

[dcclark]

I think it's a pretty cool poster -- but as something functional, I'm not so sure. I learned the standard stops and shutter speeds just by shooting a lot, and keeping my eye in the viewfinder. It would be neat to have on the wall, but I'm not sure what you would actually learn from it.

[justlearning]

Very nice chart, if it helps you that's all that matters.