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Ice and snow photography skills

Is an essential feature of winter snow and ice? Photography is ice and snow photographers love of a subject matter. Cold weather, when the heavy snow, snow covered the earth, it is snow and ice of photography. But the pictures took a lot of a lot of snow and ice, can really touch the hearts of excellent work but are few. Especially photography fans see the snow and ice were filled with joy and taken up more excited, but print canvas prints pictures but few satisfied work, often with the idea of filming and conception. Investigate its reason, I'm afraid not grasp its essentials, the particularity of the lack of understanding of ice and snow photography. According to these situation, combined with many years experiences and lessons from the snow and ice, and talk about the main point, ice and snow photography and video friends communication negotiations.

Choose scene, snow and ice and other scenery, filming choose scene is very important. Choose view including the selection of the scene, the selection of the foreground and background, as well as the main body in several aspects such as the location and size of the image.

The choice of scenarios refers to the panoramic scene, middle distance and close-up multiple JingBie. Choose such large vision and panoramic scene, its aim is to show momentum and manufacturing imposing manner, let the reader look to appreciate the vast ice world or snowy mountains and great rivers.

What light is good? The answer to this question is very simple, that is good as long as the control, any light can be shot out of a good photo. However, in comparison, ice or backlight photography works best. Under the light irradiation, the glittering and translucent get rid of is appeared, becomes emit light. Backlight for ice and snow with a circle of shiny contour line, transparent, with dignity, texture is very ice and snow, when choosing photographing snow and ice, had better choose black background, two conditions, complete artistic effect is more apparent.

Don't have bad snow photos? It certainly isn't. In many cases, the snow mostly no direct sunlight cloudy or scattering light, the light and front light there is not much difference, is also a scenery there is very little shadow, was a vast expanse of whiteness appear very dull. Due to the constraints, and sometimes I still wait for the sun came out. To change this situation, only in the chosen scene, put some colour dense and white snow and ice have strong color contrast of scenery shoot into the canvas prints, in color contrast for snow and ice in the visual appears cleaner.

Exposure has two according to the scene, one is brightness of the scenery, and the second is the author's creation intention, both supplement each other. But in comparison, the author's creation intention is more important, because the brightness of the scenery, and the various surface by light, brightness is different also, if the part by light exposure, for sure, shading light is insufficient, will likely lose shadow lines, and become a dead black; As defined by the shaded part if exposure to light part will overexposure, lose shadow lines, become a whiteboard. So we speak the author's creation intention when determining exposure is especially important.

Appropriate increase exposure, pat ice exposed a point or points less good, is not very consistent. Claiming the people think: reduce exposure of reflective snow and ice is very strong, camera's light meter measured increased exposure value influenced by reflective snow and ice, so minus the artificially high illusion, exposure to be accurate. For more exposure people think: reflective snow and ice is very strong, but with the shadow of the contrast is very strong, reduced exposure, shadow will lose shadow lines, so you should take care to the shadow side, add a bit of exposure. Advocated to which one? I think the increased a little exposure effect will be better. Increased exposure shadow face exposure not only accurate, but also exposed some negatives are thick, thick film to wash out the photos of the white snow and ice will appear more white. Here refers to the use of negative film, of course, if you use the reversal film that is another matter!

How much more exposure for good? Generally speaking, when the camera's light meter measurement after exposure, can add 1-2 exposure is ideal. Color the threads are colored, and snow and ice are white again, so it is very important in color configuration. Especially in the use of color film shooting ice and snow, colour is configured properly, will give snow photos society.with; Improper configuration, also affects the art effect of pictures.

In the ice in the photo red ornament, can not only make the red scene jump out from white, make visual interest points, form the outstanding effect of white stands a little red and can have the effect of correcting "blue snow". Using color film photograph ice and snow, often because of the adverse effect of the skylight color, make take Snow White with blue, serious when snow in canvas prints photos will become a "blue snow". "Blue snow" effect way to correct this, someone with a UV mirror is advocated, but sometimes the effect is not very ideal, if can adorn some of the red in the snow scenery, the viewer's visual the color blue snow in blue and red contrast trim.