Tips for shooting in the woods (photos, not bears...)

[chilohm]

Hi
I'm about to spend a week camping in woodland (UK) with a bunch of kids. Any top tips for taking pictures in dappled light etc? I mainly shoot colour and most of my stuff is candid portraiture.

My kit list is as follows at the moment:
Contax G2 kit (28/45/90)
Ektar 100
Tri-X
Portra 160VC/400VC

I am leaving behind my M6TTL, Summicron ASPH, 90 Elmarit, Hexanon 50 and flashes. I have loads of other film too.

Thoughts?

 

[bmattock]

Well, everyone is different. You're shooting in the woods with kids. OK, kids move fast, woods are low-light. Gotta have flash, I'm thinking.

Second thought - color in woods is boring without something to contrast it with. Leaves are green, bark and earth is brown, yadda yadda boring. You say you shoot B&W, I'd bring it and get into the whole light/shadow thing. But that's just me.

In either case - bring flash. Lots of it. Off-camera if you can manage it.

 

[MinorTones]

Bracketing will help you out if there is a question of a lot of latitude between your shadow and highlight areas.

 

[sepiareverb]

b&w means pulling film- several stops. color is harder, contrast is always high. the fuji pro films do well for me.