I love taking snow shots. Snowy days in London always used to see me down in Crystal Palace Park with the camera (thanking heavens that London transport is so pathetic that a snowflake on the railway line effectively meant a day off work as I couldn't get to the office...). Here's one of my favourite shots from back then. The snow can freak out the camera's metering system (it expects gray, it gets white, so it under exposes to make the white look gray) but that can be dealt with.
But taking a shot of it actually snowing was a bit more fun. Main problem was the shutter speed. Too fast and the snow is white specs - hard to see unless its snowing really hard (it wasn't). Too slow and you just get too many white trails. In the end I settled on a shutter speed of 1/25th second - about the limit of what I could hand hold with my 24mm lens.
In the end, it didn't snow that long and it didn't stick around, much to the relief of my wife!
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| A snowy day.... |
Next challenge? Wind! :-)
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