I spend a lot of time in the wilderness, and when deciding on a colour of a GoreTex jacket have been known to choose a bright colour for this very reason. I never realised the phenomenon had a name.
(winks to [ame="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Shirt_School_of_Photography"]Red Shirt School of Photography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/ame])
I discovered this 'red shirt thing' a few times unconsciously or naively. It works though.

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						I spend a lot of time in the wilderness, and when deciding on a colour of a GoreTex jacket have been known to choose a bright colour for this very reason. I never realised the phenomenon had a name.
Its effective for sure. Nature backgrounds are commonly green (eg trees) and therefore a foreground/subject with plenty of red goes off snap crackle pop.

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						As I was saying! An old scanned slide.

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						If you went to a V8 supercars event (hello to all you Holden fans out there) you'd need to do it in reverse, find a green shirt to stand out from all the red
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						It was a spectacular mountain, but cold there. An hour later when we were in full sun our thermometer started moving above the -35C which was as low as it could measure! Not pleasant getting dressed in a tent.
Last edited by p38arover; 15th March 2013 at 07:27 AM.
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