Point-and-shoots are back. Every frame costs film.
Thirty-six frames. Plan every one.
List the shots for an outing and see the roll as a contact sheet before you load it. The page works out which frames your film and camera can expose, which need the flash, which will come out too dark, and what will not fit on the roll. Then a film-photo critic says if the roll is ready, moves the frames to where they count, and adds a composition note for each shot.
1 The roll
Camera specs (typical for the class - check yours)
2 The shot list
One row per group of frames, in the order you will shoot them. They fill the roll from frame 1.
The shot list as text - copy it, or paste one in
3 The contact sheet
- Exposes on its own
- Needs the flash
- Risky - may print thin or dense
- Lost - too dark or blown
- Past the end of the roll
- OCritic: keeper
- ~Critic: maybe
- XCritic: cut
What the page measured (the critic cites these)
Light levels come from the classic exposure-value table (sunny 16 and friends), latitudes and camera specs are typical values. All are estimates for planning, not meter readings.
4 Ask the critic
The reply could not be read as a plan - here it is as it came: