Exposure skills of snow country snow scene

How to expose the snow scene is the most favorable creative opportunity for winter photographers. However, to really shoot a good snow scene, the light must be used well. After the earth was covered with snow, it lost its original appearance and became a new one. As far as light is concerned, the earth is like a white flat plate. Only in the case of side light or backlight can you see the ups and downs of the ground. For this reason, the lighting principle of shooting snow scenes is to use more side light or backlight, and use less or no light as far as possible, because the light intensity of all parts of the subject is the same, and their layering is lost, which can not express the texture. However, for the subject illuminated by side light and backlight, the light intensity of each part is different, and the light intensity of some parts is bright and some parts are dark, which can show its hierarchy and texture. Such as snow-covered fields, grasslands, mountains, Woods, streets, buildings, etc. Only by taking pictures with side light and backlight can we get dazzling effects. However, if the theme is not snow, but people with snow as the background, the snow scene becomes a foil, which only plays the role of explaining the environment and setting off the theme, and its level and texture have nothing to do with the overall situation. In this case, of course, you can shoot in light. At the same time, the exposure must be accurate. The color of snow is white and highly reflective, which is in sharp contrast with people and things in the snow scene. Due to the limited tolerance of photographic film, it is difficult to record such a strong contrast effect truthfully. Therefore, the exposure of snow photography must be adjusted according to the creative intention. For example, when shooting snow-capped mountains and Yuan Ye, you can measure the subject and add one or two exposures to shoot. For example, when shooting people or things in the snow scene, it is advisable to slightly overexpose the snow scene in order to highlight the artistic conception of people and things in the vast snow scene, while exposure according to the brightness of people and things will lose some levels of the snow scene, but it is necessary for shooting the theme, because it just expresses the photographer's creative intention. The rule is to prevent overexposure when shooting snow scenes and underexposure when shooting people. Shooting a snow scene will make the picture more colorful if you can shoot the flying snowflakes in the photo. The falling snow is white, so we must choose a dark background (such as dark buildings and mountains and trees not covered by heavy snow) to show the falling snow from the contrast. If you shoot at night, you can shoot falling snowflakes with a black sky as the background, and you can get better results. When shooting flying snowflakes, you can see the film fat and fuzzy white short lines of snowflakes in the photos, forming a sense of movement, thus increasing its aesthetic feeling and attracting the audience. The shooting speed should be adjusted to 1/8 seconds to 1/30 seconds. Choose a big snowflake when shooting. There is a lot of blue-purple light reflected by snow and ice, which makes the brightness difference between the ground and the sky very big, and can be corrected by a color filter. When shooting black-and-white films, you can use light yellow filters for forward illumination, and medium yellow, orange and orange filters for side illumination, side backlight and backlight illumination. When shooting color negative, the color tone is greatly influenced by the color temperature. At noon, the hue is blue and purple, which can be corrected by adding CR filter to reduce the color temperature. If you add a UV mirror or polarizer, the effect is also ideal. Photographing how the first frost is consumed is a natural landscape of nature in winter. In the early morning of winter, we will find a layer of snow-white frost on the open-air vegetation, dead leaves, railings and metal surfaces. Under the golden sunshine, things that are usually plain or even ugly are full of charm. Take pictures of frost only in the early morning, because when the sun rises, the frost will melt immediately. When shooting frost, it is generally necessary to choose a darker background and use side backlight or full backlight to express the crystal texture of frost. When shooting, it is best to show the parts or parts of frost. Only close to the main body can we show the shape and texture of frost. Shooting frost, such as shooting objects under backlight, is easy to be underexposed; In order to shoot the level of dark parts, you can increase the exposure by one level according to the reading o.

When the sun begins to deepen and form wonderful water droplets, it is very valuable to photograph frost.