sunmirror

      I've discovered that even when the sun is bright overhead, photos I take of the underside of my car (when it is up on ramps) are likely to be insufficiently illuminated. (This problem is perhaps also partly caused by the digital camera I'm using: an Eyemodule2.) A great way to create adequate lighting is to use a mirror to reflext light from the sun up onto the underside of the car.
      The photo below shows a mirror I used for this purpose. In the photo, the front end of my Honda is up on car ramps. I used the sleeping bag both to shield my skin from contact with the parking-lot's cement, and to prop-up the mirror at an angle that would aim the light at the area of the car I wished to photograph.
   Note: the photo-quality when using this mirror (one I got from a "sliding door" type of mirrored-cabinet above a sink in my apartment's bathroom) was far better than without the mirror, but still disappointing to me, because around ten percent of the detail I wished to capture in the photos was still in shadows in the photos.
    I suspect that using more mirrors (at least one more), and positioning them so that no important detail is hidden in shadows, will enable me to capture %100 of the detail I want to capture.
    Note: its seems that when trying to use a mirror for this purpose, the optimal angle for the sun to be at is around 20 angular degrees away from straight overhead.