Outdoor Photography in the Snow!
Ok, its finally starting to snow. Break out your skis and snowshoes and get outside. (Sherry, I promise to follow my own advice).
Winter is a great time to take a camera outside and capture images of your family, friends or just the incredible scenery. Many folks are very disappointed with snow photographs. Here are a few suggestions.
1. Get close to your subject. If you let the snow dominate your scene you will likely need to adjust your exposure. See tip #2.
2. If you want to show lots of snow adjust your camera to overexpose the image by about 1 to 1 1/2 stops, depending on how bright it is outside. Meters in cameras are calibrated to give a good exposure to a scene of average brightness. If you are out on sunlit snow the overall brightness will trick your camera into underexposure. The result will be a dark scene and grey snow! Yuk.
3. If you are using a modern point and shoot digital camera, see if it has a snow scene setting. Many do. This will attempt to make the exposure correction for you.
Good shooting! If you have a comment or question, please post it here!
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