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Lonely and cold hen, that's what i feel like being out in the paddock here,
snow makes everything look amazing doesn't it you get totally over excited
when it snows we want to go out walking in play in it and particularly photograph it.
snow has a few little things you need to know
in order to get it to reproduce accurately we've all taken really dull
looking snow pictures
I'm gonna try and help you take some more interesting snow pictures.
we got donkey his name is ironically snowy even though he's a grubbiest snowy
I've ever seen,
and that's what can happen to you pictures they look grubby and grey
and the reason for that is exposure those have you seen our
why your camera gets it wrong film will understand this the camera thinks the
world is grey and snow is white so
therefore it'll try and make the snow grey, let me show you.
Now i'm just gonna take a shot,
i love the way the snow is across the top of these posts,
they didnt have donkeys here when i planned it.
Donkeys *** in there,im just gonna shoot
along this fence line to the trees at the other end because I also like the fact
there's autumn leaves with snow on them, so here we go.
great stuff.
As you can see that image is really dark, and it's grey
the camera thinks the world is grey so
with all this brightness this can't possibly be right so it's making it darker.
now we need to do is increase your exposure by about a stop or a stop and a
half you can either do it manually
or you can do what i'm about to do and that's change the exposure compensation
I've just dialed it up to + 1.7
because that's going to really brighten it up I'm shooting in aperture priority
let's get in here, get a post,
you can see how much brighter that second images
now it doesn't matter if you're standing in my paddock out here or if you're on
the mountainside given it some of that down the peast
if you've got lots of snow in your shot the camera will get confused and it will make
the picture dark,
up the exposure, about a stop or a half to compensate.
If you're photographing your kids tobogganing down the hillside
same rule applies maybe if you're in Thai on your child on their toboggan
it's not so important you might be able to drop it down a bit or you'll
over expose them, but rule of thumb, you've got lots of snow in the shot,
your cameras gonna make it dark.
The other thing with snowy days is there a sensory experience it's a whole
holistic sort of a thing, for example i can hear the snow
the fingertips are cold, your breath, your nose is trying to run,
isn't it
when you take a picture in snow you're getting rid of
all that sensory stuff and you'll just bring it down to one thing:
visual so the visual impact needs to be pretty strong because I look around my
field and it looks beautiful
but actually the pictures are not that exciting now if we had beautiful light
coming in from over there for backlighting just kissing the snow on
the fence in the trees at the other end it would look amazing
but very often on dull snowy days you've got Dean
like we have today so therefore you need a nice strong subject
to put into the snow