subject: Tips For Snow Photography [print this page] With the coming of winter, snow also comes to us. The wind whistles, the snow flies, suddenly making the earth a snow-wrapped. It is the best time to shoot the snow, just pick up your camera and go out to record these beautiful snow sceneries.
1. The accurate exposure is the basic element to shoot snow photographs
Before shooting, we must first understand the characteristics of the snow. While the snows flat out on the ground, it will produce a reflective mirror effect and causing the ground has the characteristics of high brightness, small contrast, high glisten rate, and lack of the level and in a single hue.
2. The correct exposure is the basic element to shoot snow photographs.
The scene with snow will have high brightness, and those without snow cover will be very dark, which makes a great contract between any parts. Most digital camera light value are obtained by the scenery reflective, so if you metering directly on the snow scene, the screen you have taken would be little dark, in this case, you should have exposure compensation to obtain normal exposure.
3. White balance settings and the use of various filters
In the snow weather, the surrounding special environment will always make the camera's automatic white balance function cannot work accurately. The degree of precision of manual adjustment is better than the automatic adjustment, so it is best to adjust the camera's white balance manual in this time, because only the camera's white balance settings are accurate, the color can be restored correctly.
Although the snow are all in white, but with the change of time and the surrounding scenery, the snow will be shown in different white, so you should pay attention to adjust the digital camera's white balance while shooting different snow scenes.
Polarizer is particularly the effective auxiliary filter for shooting snow. It can effectively eliminate the reflection and enhance and absorb the blue-violet light without affecting other colors.
So in a clear weather, the blue sky and snow will be in very good performance, otherwise it will be lost to the level of ice and snow, and the pictures you shot out will be large different from what you see in eyes.
Besides, a yellow filter can absorb the green, blue, and purple color through yellow, orange, and red to filter the redundant blue light. What's more, it is recommended that you should not use front light while shooting snow scenery, because the front light may cause the screen too bright. In general, photographers will use the side light or back light to shoot snow scenes.
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