Winter Photography tips: Part II
In the previous post we discussed some problems that a photographer may face when shooting winter landscapes at a sunny day. In this post we will try to find out solutions to some other problems of winter photography.
While winter sunny days are ideal for landscape photography, cloudy days are perfect for portraits. Your subject will not squint and a diffused lighting will help to accentuate details. But you can not only shoot at a daytime, winter dusk photos sometimes are even more interesting.
One of the peculiarities of winter photography is a short day. That is not so bad, despite the fact that you have only a few hours to find a good subject. Long winter sunrises and sunsets give a photographer great opportunities to express their creativity. In any case the best time for winter photo sessions is early evening, when the sun is low above the horizon, but still provides you with sufficient light for shooting. Long shadows typical of this time of the day are good at showing texture of snow.
By the way after the sunset, the photographer has also something to do. Nothing will compete in expressiveness with snowy landscapes brightly lightened by the moon. It is evident that a long shutter speed is preferable to a flash. Another good composition idea of winter images is a night snowfall, but in this case a flash is restricted. It will lightened up snowflakes close to a camera and your image will be composed of blurred white spots of different sizes.
Weather conditions
Winter photography will not only test your photographic skills, but your camera resistance as well. If you do not want a snowy landscape to be the last shot of your camera, you should take all reasonable precautions to protect a delicate camera mechanism from severe weather conditions.
Remember that any camera is able to resist half an hour of frost. But when you don’t shoot, you’d better wrap your device in a warm cloth and put it in a bag or under your clothes. Evidently, even in such conditions, a camera gets cold, but it still remains warmer than an outside temperature.
Be careful after a photo session as well. Don’t start shooting inside with a camera you take for an outside photography. Because of temperature changes, the condensate appears on the camera body and inside of it and switching on a device may cause short circuit.
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