I’ve recently taken interest in long exposure/astrophotography with my Nikon D5300, and I’ve read online about people using notebooks to record their experiences while out shooting. I was wondering how people format their pages (e.g. ordering f-stops, exposure times, shutter speeds etc.).

Another reason I took interest in this is because I recently watched an anime about photography lmao (Insomniacs After School / Kimi Wa Houkago Insomnia for those interested). I saw that the mc took notes and thought that might be useful as an amateur.

Also got myself a Muji A5 5mm gridlined notebook for this.

Thanks in advance!

  • AmidolStains@alien.topBEnglish
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    1 year ago

    General rule: if you’re focused on composing the layout of your photo notes, you’re worrying about the wrong thing.

    I started off doing large format and for the first two years I diligently wrote down every exposure, filter, zone system development notes, and never once did I ever look back at it after the films were developed. Then I just wrote down what order I made the pictures and the holder number so I could track down any light leaks and so I could generally know if something might be n-, n, or n+ when developing by inspection.

    But for digital?! Jeez. Who cares. That is what computers and metadata are for. Use that special notebook for writing you actual thoughts about what and WHY you’re photographing and not your meticulously manicured exposure notes.