Take photos in the snow

1. Equipment selection

Snow shooting environment is relatively low temperature, canvas prints we recommend to consider carrying a more professional and reliable SLR. In the shooting of the scenery of the choice of lens to focus, wide - Angle. In addition, often also need to carry equipment such as tripod, polarizer, hood.

2. Equipment protection

The cold weather is bound to be a tough challenge for both people and cameras. The first is temperature. People are afraid of cold, and so are machines. When shooting, deliberately shield the camera with your hands to prevent snow water from entering the body. The author suggests that you can also prepare a camera anti-freeze thermal cover, put on a thick layer of cotton-padded clothes for your camera. In addition, cameras have a certain operating temperature, canvas prints online so do batteries. To keep them warm, you can put some camera battery packs in a warm pocket and connect them to the camera by a wire. This will keep your battery warm without compromising the shot. If you find this annoying, the most primitive method is to warm up the battery beforehand. It's simple, but it allows you to take more shots.

When you come back, don't assume your camera is safe. When you return from the cold to the warm, don't start taking pictures right away. The camera, like the human, needs to adapt to a new environment. Wait a few minutes for the camera to warm up before taking a picture. In addition, when shooting with the viewfinder in cold weather, the vapor from your own breath can sometimes make the camera lens become hazy, so don't be lazy, wear a mask to shoot, large canvas prints and carry a lens cloth to clean the camera at any time.

3. Snow exposure skills

The snow exposure is different from the normal exposure. The snow will reflect very strongly in the sunshine in a clear day, so it is difficult to set an exposure value to shoot a scene. The standard metering method of restoring 18% gray will make the white snow surface dark and gray in the picture, which will bring certain difficulties to the shooting.

Therefore, at this time, we need to adjust the exposure of the shooting or use the backlight correction function to compensate the light amount of the subject, so as to achieve the ideal shooting effect. We need to set the gain of the machine higher, and choose a darker contrast during the shooting, so as to get a good effect.

If in order to show the glittering and translucent temperament of the picture, it is necessary to use snow as the reference of the side light, and use point metering to the side light of the snow surface, and increase the exposure value from 1.5 to 2 on this basis, while restoring the bright white of the snow surface, pay attention to preserve the texture details of the snow surface.

4, Snow White balance set skills

The automatic white balance of digital cameras is generally set to around 5600K to adapt to most light environments, but for too dark or too bright and complex light, the automatic white balance of digital cameras will often fail. Snow scenery belongs to the category of "too bright". Therefore, it is recommended that you try to manually control the white balance when shooting snow scenes. Try to adjust the white balance of the camera to a position between 8000K and 10000K.

5. Scene shooting skills

Since it is a snow day, snow scenery nature is the best choice theme, whether falling shoulder crystal clear snow, or flying snow, give a person with inviolable sense of holy purity. If you've photographed fog in the fall, try it again in the winter, when the hazy haze that looms over the snowy mountains is very different from that of the clear autumn.

Select prospects

Remember the icicle tree hanging outside the window when I was a child? They can be a scenery, also can make others scenery, covered with ice or covered with thick snow using the branches, flowers, buildings as the prospect of the shooting, not only increases the depth of the space, improve the expressive force of snow scene, still can make snow distinguish gray tone of drawing with surrounding, not the picture form white.

Add color

If you find the snow scene too monotonous, split canvas prints add some jumping colors to the background, whether it's buildings, small objects, or even individuals. Using color conflicts to create contrast can be fun.