Perennial tips for the perennial snow photos you’ll be taking this winter, assuming you can bear the cold.
- Keep your camera cold to prevent condensation
- Wrap up warm; don’t get frostbite or hypothermia for a photo
- Keep your batteries warm, cold batteries drain faster
- Make your gear accessible, avoid too many buttons and zips
- Shoot RAW to give you the best options for getting exposure right
- Use manual mode to prevent the camera overcompensating
- Use a handheld lightmeter if you have one
- Use a greycard for calibrating white balance to avoid blue hue
- Notch up the EV slightly to overespose snow, adjust later in lightroom
- Don’t delete anything until you get back to your “lightroom”
- Watch out for footprints and other clutter that spoil the scene
- Be creative just street furniture, trees, fences, horses etc to add interest to snow scenes
- Once home, let your camera come back to room temperature slowly
- Use your RAW image editor to bring out the details in the snow
15 Beginner Tips for Winter and Snow Photography | DIYPhotography.net.