Photography skills of winter snow scene

With the appearance of cold air and cooling, since Christmas yesterday, many areas have ushered in a snowfall. Snowflakes are fluttering and flying all over the sky, and the world is getting better and better because of this white elf. The snow scene in winter has always been a photographer's heart, but the cold weather and complicated shooting environment have brought difficulties to the shooting of the snow scene. Today, we will analyze several problems that we often encounter when shooting snow scenes, and how to make the shooting snow scenes more exciting.

Possible problems

1, the snow is gray?

When shooting a snow scene during the day, the reflected light from the ground may affect the accuracy of camera metering. If no adjustment is made, it will usually be underexposed, resulting in a dark picture, and the white snow that was originally seen by the naked eye will become gray. In fact, mastering the correct metering and exposure is the key to shooting beautiful snow scenes. In this Gao Fancha scene, in order to fully reflect the dark and bright parts, we can measure the light separately, and then combine them to get a more accurate exposure value. Or adjust the exposure value in the fuselage to obtain ideal exposure. Generally speaking, the ideal effect can be obtained by adding 0.5~ 1 file.

At the same time, it is best to take a polarizer when shooting snow scenes. When the weather is clear, the snow reflects a lot, and sometimes it may be brighter than the scenery. Using polarization filter can effectively reduce the contrast and reduce the brightness of snow, thus highlighting the blue sky and white clouds. In addition, polarizer can also improve color saturation. It should be noted that the exposure compensation after adding polarizer needs to be reduced by 1/4~ 1/3 compared with that before adding polarizer.

This photo is full of blue tones.

Experienced photographers are used to checking the white balance settings of cameras before shooting snow scenes. If your camera is still set to normal "automatic white balance" at this time, the photos you take will be full of blue tones. If the camera does not have the function of manual white balance setting, or is not proficient in manual setting, you can directly select the "Snow/Cloudy" automatic white balance mode.

If you are familiar with your camera settings, you can customize the white balance of pure snow according to different camera settings, so as to set a more accurate white balance.

3. The shooting time is not easy to master.

When snow covers the earth, it will reflect light from many angles after being irradiated by the sun. In order to avoid dazzling sunshine, we should set the shooting time in sunny morning, around sunrise or in the evening. At this time, the light is scattered, which can better capture the texture of snow.

How to make your snow photos more brilliant?

1, frozen snow

When freezing the flying snowflakes, you can set the shutter speed below 1/60s to condense the snowflakes into lines, and set it between1/80s ~1120s to freeze the fluttering process of the snowflakes. If there are passers-by in the picture, the shutter speed mentioned above can also avoid people blurring.

2. Backlight shooting

The ice and snow under the backlight are crystal clear, and a circle of shining outlines is embedded in the ice and snow, which can highlight the crystal clear texture of the ice and snow. When shooting ice and snow in backlight, we should give priority to dark background. Dark background and backlight can enhance the picture effect.

3. Shadows can increase the three-dimensional sense.

Snow gives a soft feeling, but direct shooting lacks a trace of detail. In order to enrich the picture, we can create a sense of balance and three-dimensional sense in light and shade by depicting shadows, such as modeling shadows.

Step 4 add a touch of red

Embedding a touch of bright color, such as fiery red, in the ice and snow picture can not only make red people or things become visual highlights, but also correct the "Lan Xue" to some extent.

5. Snowflakes become light spots.

On snowy days, we should not forget to use the large aperture and blur effect of the lens. Snowflakes are irregular crystalline particles, which have strong reflection on snowy days. Therefore, reasonable use of flash and large aperture may result in very dreamy creative snow photos.

Finally, remind everyone to prevent low temperature and moisture. Generally, when the temperature of digital camera is too low, the battery consumption speed will be much faster than normal. The solution is that we should take more spare batteries and put them in our close-fitting pockets to keep warm. In addition, once snow melts, it will become water. If you don't pay attention, it may cause the camera to malfunction. The solution is to choose waterproof accessories for diving to shoot.

Now, pick up your camera and enjoy this beautiful snow scene happily!

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