Shooting Tests

Plan your tests carefully. You will want to test both how to achieve the desired results, as well as at which point it ceases to work. You need to know the parameters within which you can work. Make a draft proposal of your plan and organize it in a methodical way that will both help you to accomplish all you need to accomplish in the time allotted, and help you stay focused on your objectives as you proceed.

Remember as you test your variables, to maintain a control that you will revisit to help you keep track in your mind what normal is - so that you can determine how far afield your tests have brought you.

Tests are extremely valuable, and yet, on lower budget projects are difficult to schedule. The time spent testing will save time and aggravation in production and post. So keep precious the opportunity to shoot tests. Learn all you can from them.

To do this, your tests should as closely as possible replicate the shooting conditions which you will face during your production. The more you vary from what is expected, the less reliable your results.

Keep clear notes. Slate every shot clearly.

Have fun.