During the holiday we made one more photo project: we decided to take pictures on a toy seal, Pufóka on and in her igloo built by me and V. (The process of building could even be an entire post in itself, since the snowflakes didn’t stick together. So we built a large mound of snow first, then we removed the enterior of the igloo — the wall were hold by their own pressure. The entrance tunnel was built the same way.)
Speaking of a white object on white background, we had to deal with the exposure first. Of course, the built-in light meter of my camera could not deal with the situation, so I had to give a little help with the exposure compensation function. Setting it to -2EV provided quite satisfactory results, many details can be seen on the fur of the seal and even in the snow.
(Truth to be told, she proved to be a bit dirtier than we expected.)
The second question was: how to take pictures of something that is hidden in a small building. First we tried working from the entrance tunnel. It looked really funny, but it was not what I wanted.
Then we cut a small window on the wall of the igloo: it was just wide enough to be able to push in the objective of the camera. This resulted in much satisfactory results: you can sense the inner space of the igloo much better (the entry tunnel is in the background):
