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When winter enters the coldest time, snow will fall in many places one after another.

This article shares some tips for shooting snow scenes. I hope everyone can take beautiful pictures when it snows!

01. How to set camera parameters to increase exposure compensation for shooting a large area of white (such as snow), the automatic exposure of the camera is often dark, we need to increase about 1 exposure value in order to get a normal picture.

Because the camera uses gray as the photometric standard, in the face of a large area of white (brighter than gray), the camera will be mistaken for overexposure, thus reducing the exposure (turning white to gray).

We want to make the snow white instead of gray, so we need to add a little exposure compensation on the basis of the camera's automatic exposure.

Skillfully use white balance some photographers will change the white balance, so that the photo as a whole with a light blue, the photo looks cold, making people feel like being in the cold snow. This is an example of using color to affect mood.

Turn on the camera's white balance setting, and when using a lower K value, the photo is blue. You can also directly choose the white balance mode of those light bulb symbols, and the photos will be blue.

If you don't like this hue, just use automatic white balance.

When it is necessary to manually focus on a solid-color scene, because the contrast and outline of the scene cannot be detected, the automatic focus of the camera may fail, but it is not right, which is commonly known as "pulling the bellows".

At this time, you should decisively switch the lens to MF (Manual focus) mode, turn the focus ring, and you will be able to focus. If you use a mobile phone, you need to turn on professional mode, change AF to MF, and then swipe your fingers to focus.

02. Be interested in shooting snow scenes. Photos should have at least one point of visual interest, that is, what attracts people. To put it colloquially, it is to make the picture interesting. Never shoot the snow in order to shoot the snow, the picture is white and there is no artistic atmosphere.

Foreground increase after too much snow, the ground is covered with snow, we can increase the foreground to make the photo have a progressive relationship, it will look more hierarchical.

There are many things that can be used as foreground. A stone, a line of footprints, and some recognizable shapes and contours can all become foreground.

03, the common snow scene shooting methods leave a large area blank in photography, simple to the extreme is beautiful, snowy days can try to take minimalist style photos.

The details of shooting snowflakes snowflakes formed at different temperatures have different shapes. When shooting, you need to use a macro lens, or close to the shot and then zoom in.

You can get a good picture by letting the snowflake fall on the dark sweater.

Slow door records the dynamic beauty of snowflakes. In addition to shooting static snow, we can also record flying snowflakes. When there is heavy snow, you can record the snowflakes falling by using a slower shutter time, such as a shutter speed of 10 seconds and 50 seconds.

But this requires a very heavy snow, in shooting, you can find a dark background (as pictured above), you can also use light to illuminate the snowflakes, which will make the shooting more successful.

Color collision snow is white, see too much easy aesthetic fatigue, we can take white as a piece of paper, looking for other colors to paint on the paper. When choosing colors, remember not to be greedy for too much, otherwise it will be counterproductive.

Itself has a beautiful color of the scenery, in the snow, with the addition of snow, will be more charming. This is why many photographers like to take pictures of the Imperial Palace on snowy days.

The use of light to set off the atmosphere of snow and sunlight, the combination of the appearance. Can also be in the evening, the use of light shooting, can also get a good effect.

Try to use backlight or side backlight when shooting, pay attention to the color and brightness of the light.

Good at using light to set off the atmosphere, in the morning and evening sunny days, golden sunshine on the snow, the whole world is like a fairy tale.

This article is from the official account of Wechat: photography Research Society (ID:shoujiPhotography), by Zhang Xiaozhang.

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