SNOW!!! Tips for shooting in it?

[silverpenguin7]

Any quick tips for snow shooting? Never actually done it before and I am popping to Richmond Park to make use of the nights snow fall.

So aaprt from driving VERY carefully...(lol) and other tips for snow shooting? I'm sure I read somewhere once that you want to set over exposure on the compensation otherwise the snow can come out slightly grey frm too high a shutter seed?!

I'm going at about 11ish so you have till then to offer me all your wisdom...

:)

[raymondlin]

over exposed for 1 stop to 1.5 stop.

[puddleduck]

If its white, add light!

So about +1EV should do it, or just spot meter on the deer.

I was planning to head down myself, got a nice shot (in my head!) planned.

[silverpenguin7]

Ah ha cool, thanks guys!

I have to go in to Kingston today but because of the snow I have got to detour through the park. So I'm not gong to have too long there plus I shall have a friend in tow but I've got to try and make the most of it if I can. might not see snow again for a few years!!

[kerzo]

No snow here :(

[mnementh]

Thats the next batch of christmas cards sorted then ...

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[RomerojpgX]

SNOW!!! Tips for shooting in it?

BIG BULLETS AND LOTS OF THEM :n0rty:

[RobDickinson]

If you understand meetering you understand why you have to add EV.

Your camera always wants to work to 18% grey (on the aera meetered, spot, center or frame etc).

If the scene is all snow it'll think its over exposed and meter the white snow down to 18% grey, which is why you add EV. If the scene is dark you -EV to compensate. Your camera doesnt know what the sceen is supposed to look like, its just guessing.

[FishBoy]

SNOW!!! Tips for shooting in it?

Wrap up warm!

Joking aside, as others have said, over-exposure is the way to go. The camera sees huge great areas of white and the auto-metering thinks "coo, this is over-exposed, so I'd better shut things down to underexpose it and bring it all back to a nice mid-grey balance". Hence with most cameras you have to manually OVER expose to get things back to normal, if that makes sense...