Ice snow snow snow shooting skills and notes
Shooting snow, the best is a clear day after the snow, such as catching the light of the early morning is better. In the sun, the use of side light and side backlighting, the best expression of the snow scene of light and dark levels and the transparent texture of the snow particles, the shadow is also rich in change, even if it is a distant view, but also can produce a far-reaching atmosphere.
If you are photographing people in the snow, it is best to add auxiliary light to your face and wear a hood on your camera lens. If you use black-and-white film to shoot snow, you should add a deep yellow, orange or yellow-green filter to depress the sky shadow, weaken the brightness of the snow, so that the scene is soft shadow. If you use color film to shoot snow, it is best to use polarizing filters to absorb the polarized light reflected by the snow, reduce the brightness, adjust the shadow tone, so that the white clouds in the blue sky stand out, but also to improve the saturation of color.
Correct metering and correct exposure is the key to the success or failure of shooting snow photos. In large areas of snowy scenery, with the camera internal metering system metering, according to the data displayed to shoot snow scenes, generally underexposed, this is because the camera's internal metering table are metered with a certain procedure, it shows the data is a comprehensive scene in the highlights, middle tones, shadows of the average light value. This works in most cases, but in snowy scenes, strong reflected light often makes the metering results differ by 1-2 exposure steps. In this case, the use of exposure compensation, as appropriate, to increase the exposure by 1-2 levels, you can also point the camera at the mid-tone objects, to take a local close measurement, and according to the data measured at this time, the camera will be adjusted to the "manual" position to take pictures. Photographers who have incident light meter, in the snow according to the beam of light on the subject of metering, according to the resulting exposure data to take pictures, it will be accurate.
In the snowy days, to get a picture of snowflakes flying, you should choose a dark background as a backdrop; shutter speed should not be too high, generally 1/15 to 1/60 seconds is appropriate, so that the flying snowflakes to form a line with a sense of movement of snowflakes falling. In the shooting of snowy characters, be careful not to let the snowflakes too close to the lens, so as not to let the snowflakes block the face due to perspective.
Shooting snow should also make full use of the branches of trees with snow or hanging ice, fence walls, buildings, etc. for the foreground, to improve the expressive power of the snow, increase the spatial depth of the picture, and enhance the people's feeling of snow and ice.
In winter, the snow scene is the best photographic object. People in the snow, buildings in the snow. All of them give people a kind of blank haze. But let's take a look at winter photography tips.
Snow and tree hanging
There are three cases of taking pictures of snow, one is a simple snow scene, even if there are people, but also the snow scene in the embellishment, accompaniment, the characters in the picture position is very small. The second situation is the snow as a scene, the characters are mainly snow and characters between a certain distance, the snow reflection can not be directly reflected on the face or body of the characters, this time to form a strong contrast between people and snow. The third situation is that people in the snow, snow reflections can be reflected to the character's body or face. The three cases should be treated in three ways.
Simple snow
The first attempt to shoot snow people, there is often a misunderstanding of where the snow to where to shoot, where the snow white to where to shoot. In fact, the effect of this shot is not necessarily the snow "shoot more", "shoot white". The reason is very simple, for example, in the square is full of a piece of white snow just fell, shoot out what will be? Not only is there no effect of more, and there is no texture of the snow. More, there must be a sign of the amount, the amount of comparison; white, there must be black or other color contrast and accompaniment. Both quantity and texture to have the effect of more snow.
The sense of quantity or texture are accompanied by out, first of all, is the shadow, and then is less than more lining. Such as a pine and cypress branches on the snow, to be more texture than a large area of snow on the square, backlighting, oblique side light or oblique side backlighting than the smooth light texture is better. Snow backlighting, not like other scenes backlighting will appear purity of very dark shadows. Snow, not only the shadow of the backdrop, but also the scene of the backdrop, such as the aforementioned pine and cypress branches or elm and willow branches on the trunk, or with the help of the scene in the buildings or people dressed.
Tree hanging is a landscape after the snowfall, in order to shoot the texture of the tree hanging, the best tree hanging for the close-up, and then there is a distant view of the snow lining. If you use black and white film to shoot snow, it is best to use a yellow filter or red filter. Because the sky after the snow is generally gray and white. If you use color to shoot snow, it is best to use polarizer.
The most favorable time and method of taking pictures of simple snow is:
Snow is falling, especially in the descending goose feather snow, with a smaller aperture, such as with a standard lens available f/11 or with f/16 aperture, the distance scale placed on a 5-meter, will be the camera mounted on a tripod, looking for a dark background, with a slower shutter speed, such as 1/30 seconds, can be photographed! traces of falling snow.
When the sun hits the ground obliquely, the undulating snow itself casts shadows that add texture and volume.
The use of color film to shoot snow with polarizer, on the one hand, can adjust the color of the sky, and can eliminate reflections and reduce color temperature. Because of the higher color temperature of the snowy sky, there will be blue shadows.
As far as possible, use a hood to prevent stray reflected light from entering the lens.
Use of Exposure in Snowy Landscapes
Correct exposure is the most basic issue in shooting snowy landscapes. The parts of the scene that have snow on them are very bright, while the parts that don't have snow appear very dark, which makes the contrast between the parts very large. Most digital cameras are metered by the reflections in the scene, so if you meter directly at the snow, the resulting image will be dark, and you'll have to compensate for this to get a normal exposure.
Some people may not be familiar with the concept of exposure compensation, which is simply the process of increasing or decreasing the amount of exposure measured by the camera. For example, in aperture-priority mode, the camera's measured exposure is F2.8, 1/60th of a second. If you increase the exposure compensation by one stop, the exposure will be F2.8, 1/30th of a second, and if you decrease the exposure compensation by one stop, the exposure will be F2.8, 1/125th of a second. Not all digital cameras can be exposure compensation, then you can use the manual mode to adjust the aperture shutter, the same exposure can be achieved Generally speaking, increase the exposure compensation can achieve better results, of course, this is not absolute, according to the scene environment. Therefore, after shooting the timely playback of pictures to determine the increase or decrease in exposure compensation. It should be noted that not all snow scenes need exposure compensation, only when the snow accounts for most of the area in the picture should be considered for exposure compensation. The effect of compensation.