​Practical winter snow shooting skills

Snow can make all the buildings become quiet overnight, so that you have a chance to go into the heart of the city, canvas prints to experience everything related to warmth or once relevant. As the saying goes, extreme weather photography, how to make a difference in such fairytale weather, we have a look at these must master photography skills.

1. Concise composition

If you are a fan of street photography, or photography minimalism, then the snow is a gift, when it snows a pure white and vast, it is easy to take a simple picture. Simple composition, detailed texture, dramatic atmosphere, photo prints cheap let a person cannot help but indulge in it. His black-and-white landscapes present us a poetic white world with simple yet elegant images.

2.Choose the right time

Photography is the art of light and heavy snow days, what time to take pictures of more have administrative levels feeling and aesthetic feeling, when snow cover the earth, online collage heaven and earth boundless, a lily-white if taken in sunny morning or evening, can show simple sense of snow, or if it is taken in the snow village rime, good light can better apply colors to a drawing atmosphere.

Because of the light rendering, early in the morning when the sun rises the snow appears pale rose color, the photo is beautiful fantasy. Against the light of the snow, trees have become particularly dreamy and beautiful. Because of the light, this snow scene has a different contrast and strong visual effect.

3. Color contrast

Monotonous pure white look for a long time also easy to let a person produce visual fatigue, this time, the use of contrast color contrast, to support the snow scene, but more eye-catching. You can observe the surrounding still life in the snow and see the colors jumping out of it. The contrast of red is more attractive in the snow scene.

Red is a very good contrast color that highlights snow and pure white. When we were shooting, we could look for this kind of color to match. We realized that small scenes can also make a difference. We should shoot more details. However, one thing to pay a little attention to is that when red appears in the picture, in order to take into account the presentation of snow color, it is likely that the red in the picture will be too partial to the color, which may be purple or pink. Therefore, we can use the RAW format in the early stages to adjust the red hue and saturation in the later stages.

4, Snow exposure

Accurate exposure is the first factor to shoot snow, we must first of all have some understanding of the characteristics of snow, because snow in the ground tiled will produce a kind of mirror reflection effect, resulting in the characteristics of snow surface is: brightness, small contrast, high reflectance, lack of layers, single tone. In this way, the camera takes a slightly different view from what the human eye sees in real life.

If you take a camera or mobile phone and measure the snow directly, the picture will be dark, and you must compensate for the exposure to get the normal exposure. Generally speaking, if most of the area in the picture is covered by snow, it is appropriate to add 1-2 exposure compensation after metering.

Zhao Lin once wrote an article to demonstrate that the principle of metering is "white plus black minus", when shooting snow, often prone to two extremes. First, if the picture light ratio is equal, the photographer is afraid of overexposure, thus reducing the exposure compensation, making the picture dark; second, if the picture light is relatively large, the photographer mistakenly measures the light in the shadow, which will make the part of the snow in the picture overexposed. The most correct metering method is to find the brightest large area in the picture, point metering it, and then set the exposure compensation to +2.0. This ensures that the brightest areas of the image are not over-exposed and are pure white, and that the rest of the image will follow its own color and brightness.

In extreme cases like snow photos, in addition to better metering methods, some photographic accessories can be used to help with the shooting. The most important accessory is the polarizer. The surface of the snow will have a large amount of polarized reflection, and the polarizer can make the light ratio of the picture much smaller.

5. Snow equipment protection

Take photos in the snow, equipment moisture resistance to pay special attention to. Packed in plastic bags with a simple lens and equipment can play a good effect, but also pay attention to the battery insulation, let the battery in low temperature quickly, when not filming, take down the battery in time, heat preservation in the pocket, also can effectively extend the service life of the battery, of course, also can get many battery, nip in the bud. When the battery is taken from a cold place to a warm place, moisture condensation is likely to occur, which can be prevented by sealing the camera in a plastic bag beforehand.

Finally, you can carry a soft cloth to clean the body, so as not to affect the shooting of water vapor.

When the snow has just come, haven't completely cover all things, when filming become very interesting, especially when shooting in the wild, the mountain rocks and flowing rivers, because of the location and surface uneven, tend to form protean pictures, make hay while the sun shines, careful observation, often can make full of the beautiful scenery of the landscape painting style, atmosphere, lyrical, very artistic conception.

6. Snow artistic conception portrait

Finally, we will talk about everyone's favorite snow portrait works, the first thing to pay attention to the model's clothing color collocation; do not conflict with the vast white snow. Can use the small thing such as knitting cap, scarf to build the atmosphere of wintry day snow. Pay attention to white balance. In snow scenes, due to the special environment, the automatic white balance of digital cameras is not very accurate, and manual adjustment of white balance can better restore the color of photos. Snow and rain, reflecting strong brightness high, want to show the movement of snow, you can choose a slower shutter, can also choose a dark background, so that the picture can have a better sense of hierarchy.

Snow portrait has a higher challenge to the photographer, to ensure the correct exposure of the face, but also to take into account the snow, snow shooting, if the early period to accommodate the exposure of snow and make people less exposed, then the later period can highlight the part of the character. After balancing the finishing exposure, adjust the corresponding tone with the curve, such as red on the red channel under the green, green on the green channel under the green, blue on the blue channel under the yellow, etc., so that the work can be always before and after, aluminum photo prints and finally complete the usual portrait decoration work.