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4.1
Use Simple and Clean Photographs
You are likely to require photos for your experimental setup, or images to illustrate
your background information, etc. Make sure your photographs are simple, focusing on what you want to convey. If you have the luxury of taking new photographs
expressly for your presentation, here is some advice:
• Remove anything not needed in the frame (for instance, empty cardboard boxes
next to your experimental setup) prior to taking the photo (cleaning up prior to
shooting is much easier than Photoshopping after the fact)
• Ensure there is enough light, but avoid any undesired reflections
• Ensure there are no bystanders, unless they play a role
• Feel free to crop photos to any aspect ratio, feel free to distort them, etc.
Similar principles apply for movies (remove any junk prior to filming, ensure
there is enough lighting, etc.) For movies though, it might not be that trivial to crop,
so you might have to work with whatever frame you filmed with.
Follow these tips whenever you take photographs or make movies. You might
need the resulting images one day for a presentation.
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