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A white cardboard square for setting the white balance.
- Not all digital camera have an automatic white balance setting. You would not want dull photographs.
Under proper lighting, take a picture of your cardboard; do this after every 6 shots or so, to be safe.
Aluminum foil is a great reflector of light and is cheap, lightweight and easy to carry.
- Instead of using the flash to illuminate your subject, try reflected light. Aluminum foil is a great reflector of light and is cheap, lightweight and easy to carry. During a walk in the woods, there are possibilities like taking pictures of delicate flowers growing in darker areas. There may be no direct light on the flowers and a flash would have completely washed out the color. Use a trusty piece of aluminum foil to reflect the light falling to the ground a few feet away towards the flowers. You can adjust the amount of light by moving or crumpling the foil.
carry a small coil notebook that I can use to note anything different I do. Some of the things I note include:
- Identify your photos – In addition to numbering them, for the first photo of a group of experiments, describe it so you will know which one it is when you get around to looking at them. This is the most reliable way to know to which photos my notes belong as the camera date is usually set off and I may take photos for days before downloading. Also. Note the ambient light conditions – indicate the type of light (direct sunlight, full shade, light overcast, 60 watt bulb etc) and the direction of the light in relation to your subject (from right to left, front to back, etc). If you have an SLR camera, note any variations in f-stop or shutter speed you make from those derived from using your light meter. When you have developed your photos (or downloaded them) look at the results and draw your conclusions about what worked and did not, what effects you liked and what you did not. Think about what you were trying to capture in the photo and whether the lighting you used enhanced or detracted from it.
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