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With all the wintery weather across the world at the moment, we thought that it may be useful to offer a few tips for capturing images in snow and ice. Hopefully these will ensure you’re venturing out into the snow with the right kit, and the right eye to shoot a stunning photograph.
If you’re lacking any sign of snow or winter, be sure to bookmark the video for later this year!
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Do you have any of your own techniques and ideas for shooting in cold weather? Please feel free to share your thoughts in the comments, along with links to any of your wintery images!
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Thank you man, nice tut:)
Very helpful thank you!
I hate these videos. Could you at least write a quick point-by-point analysis of the video so I can determine if I want to watch it? Please?
Agree, text form please. Videos are so inconvenient. :(
+1 As nice as videos are, they should be a complement to the text/image tut, not the other way around.
+1 – Hate screencast post !!
Agreed.
I use to love videos but after a short time they become very inconvenient.
But I want to say this isn’t directed at Simon Plant, in fact I think a video in this case works perfectly because it’s a on the field demonstration.
What’s annoying is when it’s a 45 minute long photoshop tutorial…
Nice and useful! here in UK is snowing everywhere!
Hey Simon, I enjoyed watching the video and seeing the resulting images.
I’m also surrounded by snow and have spent the last few mornings out with the camera trying to capture that perfect image. What I’ve failed to do is look for those “mundane” shots that can actually produce amazing results in this weather.
Instead, I’ve come back with hundreds of landscape photographs that don’t really mean anything and lack any interest.
Lesson learned! Hopefully I can get out and get some more shots before the snow melts away and make up for it.
Care to add a little contrast to the photo?
Nice and useful too ! Here in France is snowing everywhere ;-) !
why’s everyone hating on the videos? Just skim through it to see if you want to watch …same as skimming a written tut.
I love the videos!!! Especially for photoshop and After Effects!!!
Gonna watch this now
Thank you for this video post. I prefer video tutorials over text tutorials.
Very nice outcome!
It will be also lovely to watch the action shot version of these tips: Cool tips for shooting action photos in snow?
Beautiful work! During then next snow your video will indeed come to mind. Thanks!
this is great, shame all the snow has now gone in the UK though…hummm maybe we will have some more :)
When narrating, would it not it help you to write some phrases down? As it is now, i hear 60% of (ahm´s, and Uhm´s) ex. this uhhhm, is ahhm, a good shot since uhhm…. it is kind of irritating… exept the narration… it was a good podcast =)
I live in upstate New York, where we specialize in long winters. This means, to my chagrin, that I can’t shoot my favorite flower, leaf and weed close-ups, and broad green landscapes for at least six months.
Therefore, I must manage topics such as snow, dry grasses, ice, fog and so on. It turns out that there are many great shots presented in these conditions, as Simon has pointed out in his great video tut.
If you’re stuck in a snowbelt somewhere, I suggest you look for the following, which make excellent photos: snow drifts carved by wind; ice patterns in a pond, river or puddle; heaved ice that looks like mini icebergs on the shorelines of lakes; semi-frozen waterfalls; giant ice-cycles flowing down cut rock faces on highways; and freshly-fallen snow clinging to tree branches, bushes, bush-berries, etc.
At least some of these photos, for example ice formations on lake shorelines, will benefit from dramatic Photoshop treatments that are high-key (high contrast and broad dynamic range).
Very interesting and useful video. Adding details of the lens used, aperture, speed, ISO, etc. would add to effectiveness of video. Thanks