How to shoot the snowy scene?

Tutorial of shooting snow scene: adjust exposure, find contrast, "light up" the picture with contrast, use light and shadow, render the effect, focus on details, shoot close-ups, skillfully use slow motion, show the dynamic beauty, make a reasonable composition and create a minimalist style.

1, adjust the exposure

In most cases, the snow scene seen by the naked eye is bright, while the picture taken by the lens is dark. This is because the snow itself is bright. In order to control the exposure of the picture, mobile phones and cameras will automatically reduce the brightness of the picture. In this case, it is necessary to manually increase the exposure of the picture to restore it to the actual brightness.

2. Find the contrast and use it to "light up" the picture.

Although snow has the charm of ink painting, monotonous pure white is easy to cause visual fatigue. You may want to liven up the photos by looking for the contrast of colors. You can find a good angle, wait for a pedestrian wearing brightly colored clothes to appear, and then press the shutter.

3, the use of light and shadow, rendering effect

When shooting a snow scene, just like taking other scenery photos, we should also look at the weather and light. If it is sunny, morning and evening are the best shooting time.

Using the unique light in these two periods can not only show the texture of snow, but also bring light spots and shadows to the picture and increase the layering of photos. Even at night, you can try to create an atmosphere through lighting and record different beauty.

4. Pay attention to details and take close-ups

When you are struggling to take a big and complete picture among people who appreciate the snow scene, you might as well change your mind and show another kind of beauty of the snow day by shooting a small local scene. Macro lens can be used to enlarge the shape of each snowflake, so that it can be displayed in front of you more clearly and finely, giving people surprises that are difficult to see with the naked eye.

5. Use slow motion skillfully to show dynamic beauty.

When there is a large amount of snow, you can slow down the shutter speed and record the white trajectory of snowflakes falling, so that the snow scene has a dynamic beauty. In addition, through the dark background, such as night, Woods, dark buildings and so on. The effect of falling snowflakes can be better compared.

6, reasonable composition, to create a minimalist style

The white and clean snow scene is very suitable for minimalist picture composition. When shooting, choose a theme, such as buildings, animals, people, trees, etc. Then, with the clean sky, snow and water as the background, create a minimalist aesthetic feeling. Pay attention to avoid too many scenes in the background that disturb the picture when shooting.

Snow shooting skills:

If you want to freeze the snowflakes in the air, remember that the shutter speed should not be lower than 1/500 seconds, and you must choose a relatively dark background so that you can see each snowflake clearly.

Select shutter priority, adjust the shutter speed to 1/500 seconds, and adjust the sensitivity to automatic mode. If there is no automatic mode, you can adjust the ISO to 400-800. If the light is particularly poor, you should continue to improve the sensitivity.

If you need to take a picture of snowflakes flying all over the sky, then you should choose a deeper background to avoid background interference. At the same time, the shutter speed should not be too high, generally around1125 seconds, so that the flying snowflakes form lines and show the movement of snowflakes.