The weather is getting colder, how to quickly take a good shot of the snow scene?

The most common problem with shooting in snow is that the scenery is too cluttered, because the most common objects in snow are buildings and tree branches. Therefore, they often appear in the frame when shooting, so you should try to avoid these objects to make the picture look cleaner and neater. The most common cluttered scene in the picture is trees, reasonable arrangement is an important choice, reasonable composition is the second basic essentials of snow shooting.

Choose the right time, you can choose a snowy day, so that the ** shot is more layered and more atmospheric. You can also find some places with better scenery to shoot. Also, it's pretty good.

1. Make good use of the shooting time at dawn and dusk in winter.

In winter, the sun rises faster than in summer, and the sun sets faster and gets darker quickly, but there is a longer period of time around dawn and dusk than in other seasons. This makes the time slot longer than before, take a little time outdoors, shoot landscapes, take portraits, and seize this great opportunity as soon as possible in the best light of the day.

2. Use color tones to convey the artistic conception of the picture.

Of course, the **most** of winter may be white, but we can set up different moods to define the story of Tuhu Kai by using color and natural light to make it look lonely, bright, grandiose, or powerful, such as photographing a tree covered in snow with only black branches, giving a sense of calm and loneliness.

But when the sun is about to set, the reflected light creates a variety of colors, and these feelings inspired by the bright colors of the sky give a sense of power.

3. Shoot with chromatic aberration**, which will help the image stand out.

In winter, it looks like everything has been white, so try to find the colors in the color and use them as the focal point, which will help the image stand out, such as houses or plants, animals, flowers, and certain fruits. Capturing these points at the moment the light hits them will help create warmth in the image.

The tips for shooting snow scenes are as follows:

First, increase the local light compensation of exposed limbs

In snow-covered landscapes, the reflectivity will become very high, which will fool the camera's metering system. The metering system will mistakenly think that it is a very bright environment, so it will reduce the amount of **, resulting in insufficient snow scenes** and gray.

Therefore, the photographer has to manually increase the ** compensation before shooting the snow scene. As for how much to increase, it depends on the area covered by the snow of the scenery and the style of shooting, the larger the area, the more it increases, and vice versa. Generally, the increase is about the same, you can adjust it while shooting, until you are satisfied.

The operation method is to press and hold the "** compensation (with "+-sign)" button next to the shutter button on the fuselage, and then adjust the main dial increase or decrease.

The rules of "** compensation" have been added to shooting snow scenes, mainly for SLR and mirrorless cameras. If you are using a smartphone, you can turn on the "AI photography" function on the photo page, and the phone will automatically recognize that the content you are shooting is a snow scene, and then give the correct shooting parameters.

2. Set off the snow with a dark background

The snowflakes are falling, and there is a quiet beauty and elegant beauty. The white drifting snow needs a dark background to set off it to be more conspicuous. Therefore, when photographing snow, it is often necessary to take dark woods and buildings as the background, and even choose to shoot at night to set off the white snowflakes.

Sometimes red buildings are used as backgrounds, such as the snow outside the walls of the Forbidden City, which not only has a sense of formal beauty, but also has the combination of ancient buildings and wind, frost, rain and snow, creating a theme of time.

3. Use shutter speed to freeze the snow

Drifting snow is dynamic, and it is necessary to use "shutter priority" to determine the state of shooting. If you want to freeze the snow, use a fast shutter speed, such as 1 500 seconds; If you want to lengthen the trail of falling snow, or shoot the effect of wind-blown snow, you can set it to a slower shutter speed, such as 1 30 seconds, or even slower.

Fourth, what to shoot in a static snow scene

The so-called static snow scene is the scenery after the snow. What should you take pictures of after the snow? The first choice is the city's parks, monuments, scenery on both sides of artificial lakes.

These places are closer to home and can be photographed after the snow on pavilions, city landmarks, bridges, and more. The flowers and trees after the snow are hungry for trees, and there will definitely be a new look. If it is a snow scene in early winter, you can express the color contrast between snowflakes, autumn leaves, persimmons, etc.; When the plum blossoms are in bloom, you can also take pictures of the snow reflecting the cold plums.