How To Photograph Snow

[Chris Gohlke]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/shinyshiny/2005/02/how_to_photogra.html' target='_blank'>http://wirelessdigest.typepad.com/shinyshiny/2005/02/how_to_photogra.html</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Quick! Before it's too late - it's melting! Photographer, Ken Rockwell, has been providing useful tips on how to photograph snow without it coming out all dark and gloomy looking. Dutiful as ever, I actually left the flat and took a walk round the park in order to try out Ken's tips (in a nutshell: turn your exposure up to +1). Here's a before and after snap. Not the artiest shot, I agree, but the coffee shop was calling to me from afar."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.digitalmediathoughts.com/images/snow.jpg" /><br /><br />Not that I have much use for this here in Florida :D , but here is a tip to help you to get more out of your pictures in the snow.

[Jerry Raia]

Yeah I wouldn't use this technique much in Los Angeles either but you never know. :)

[Kris Kumar]

Good tip.

Last weekend I was at Niagara Falls, and I totally forgot about it. :oops:
Actually it was too cold for my brain to think properly. :lol:

There is always a next time....

[jeffd]

I love night shots and also like snow, so when I saw this after a storm I knew I had to try and take a picture.

http://img1.yoxio.com/thumb/133119.jpg (http://img1.yoxio.com/view/133119.htm)424kb - View Full Image (http://img1.yoxio.com/view/133119.htm)

[djh]

Good tip.

Last weekend I was at Niagara Falls, and I totally forgot about it. :oops:

Just for you Kris.
I know, it's hardly Niagara Falls, but it's all I have in Southern New Hampshire.
http://djh.smugmug.com/photos/15808855-M.jpg

[Jerry Raia]

Nice shot :) Is that white stuff snow?? :lol:

[Kris Kumar]

Awesome photo David.

Wish my Niagara photos were half as good.

[Philip Colmer]

Being a novice who is struggling with some of the non-automatic features, can someone please explain, or clarify, how to adjust the exposure to +1?

The Canon has P, Tv, Av and M. What I've tried to do is use M and then adjust the aperture and the shutter speed so that what I think is the exposure meter (reading from -2 to +2) is settling around +1.

Have I got that right or should I be doing something else?

--Philip

[Lee Yuan Sheng]

In an auto exposure mode (meaning P, S or A) you press the button that compensates the exposure level and twirl the command dial. I think in the 300D's case, it's one of the two buttons at the back where your right thumb normally rests.

[djh]

Here's another snow picture, from today, just for you warm weather folks - you miss all the fun!
My daughter can be pretty determined about getting just the right view for the pictures she takes :lol:

http://djh.smugmug.com/photos/16958401-L.jpg

[Jerry Raia]

Yeah I'll say! Well what is the picture she took??

[Philip Colmer]

In an auto exposure mode (meaning P, S or A) you press the button that compensates the exposure level and twirl the command dial. I think in the 300D's case, it's one of the two buttons at the back where your right thumb normally rests.
Thank you for that.

--Philip

[djh]

Yeah I'll say! Well what is the picture she took??
Here it is.......
Someone had made a tiny snowman at the side of the trail.

http://djh.smugmug.com/photos/16982261-M.jpg

[Jerry Raia]

Very nice :)