Reflector or foam core board?

[Thomas Wildgen]

A little trick that I do with a 4X4 sheet of foam cor is to buy a silver space blanket from the camping section of a outdoor store. open it all the way up and then scrunch it down as small as you can to get it wrinkled. I then go into the garage and I coat one side of the piece of foamcor with spray cement and spread the wrinkled space blanket out on the board. Don’t spread it out too smooth, put it on wrinlkled, this will give a nice soft bounce that is a different quality than the white side of the board, sort of a hard side/soft side card.
I often trim the card to fit in the lid of a case and score it down one side to fold in half to take on the road.
There are variations too, you can buy one of the gold space blankets and have a warm side instead of white.
Just my 2 cents worth.

Tom

Tom Wildgen
WebCast Coordinator
WestLegalEdcenter

[Rick Wise]

That’s a terrific idea!

Rick Wise
director of photography
Oakland, CA
http://www.RickWiseDP.com
email: Rick@RickWiseDP.com