The onset of a cold time of year many photographers is perceived as a signal for what is now a picture quality will not work. And it is absolutely wrong: attempts to create a picture in the winter give invaluable experience, in addition, you can do so many great shots. Just have to take into account some features of how to create pictures in the winter and how to photograph snow.
Reducing the air temperature below zero may affect the performance photographic equipment, the problem is that the lubrication mechanisms becomes more dense. As a result, the mechanics can work or worse, refuse altogether, change the sensitivity of detectors and exposed plastic parts become more brittle in the cold, which is fraught with breakdowns. Worse still behaves in the cold battery camera on a cold battery capacity may be reduced to nearly zero. All these problems are solved by a simple way – the camera must be kept warm and get only the composite image thought-out, the desired angle is found and photographed the model is fully prepared – you are fully prepared to create a photo. Take a photo or a few, we remove the camera and then “look”!
The second point is related to a specific winter daylight. Short sunny day, overcast winter sky, or vice verse, bright and contrast lighting, it is very difficult to create the desired picture quality. At high cloud images are obtained with flat, dull and not very bold, without a shadow. But this advantage for those who want to create a photo, polished properly compose the picture without being distracted by the riot of colors. Here you can make a small digression on the subject, the correct composition is:
- A contrast that will attract viewers’ attention on this photo, that is, the lighter the object must be removed on a dark background and vice verse;
- Correct placement of all objects of importance, should not be randomly distributed, are best when they form a simple geometric figures;
- The objects should be located in different parts of the frame, creating a balance, volume, size and tone;
- The rule of “golden section”, that is the most natural point for the location of the main object of photography should be a third of the frame horizontally or vertically;
- Use effective diagonal of composition;
- The use of sound location format in the vertical or horizontal;
- Choosing the right camera angle for a portrait – eye level;
- The location of the semantic center of the frame on the right side of photo as the human brain is used to “read” the picture from left to right;
- Leave the space in front of a moving object in the frame.
Low lighting makes it possible to create a picture in a natural way mastering an open aperture and shallow depth of field. Aperture allows you to control the relative aperture of the camera lens, changing the quantitative index of light passing through the lens, this balance determines the brightness of the optical image of the object images to the actual brightness of the object, setting the desired value, depth of field. And when a blinding sun, extremely high contrast ratio provides an opportunity to practice in the correct location of the direction of shadows and silhouettes of the object being photographed. And besides, not only in the winter are cloudy days and here is quite suitable “winter” attempts to create a picture.
Winter drops the brightness of all landscapes, colorful nature and number of colors. Did a photo black and white form is not considered a top “aerobatics” professional photographer? Thus, again winter provides an opportunity to improve their photography skills, when the color does not distract attention from the alignment plan of the composition. Thus, we see that for this photographer with a keen eye and a desire to constantly improve ourselves, “There is no bad weather!