Snow! These are great!!
Snow! These are great!!
Agree.
Today we had the barest dusting of snow/sleet here (after torrential rain and flooding yesterday!). There's hope yet for a bit of snow sticking before the end of winter.
Ask and you shall receive - we got an unexpected 4+ inches today. But all roads were impassable and a lot of cars were abandoned due to people trying to drive (we don't have proper snow management here in the south!) so I had to accept just shooting in my backyard.Originally Posted by Corran
A couple from my Pentax 67ii and 90-180mm f/5.6, on TMX dev'd in Pyrocat:
It’s fun how snow transforms the landscape. I’m glad the you got some pictures safely!
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
Lakeside Fawn
Fuji 6X680
300mm
Last edited by Peter De Smidt; 9-Feb-2020 at 22:50.
“You often feel tired, not because you've done too much, but because you've done too little of what sparks a light in you.”
― Alexander Den Heijer, Nothing You Don't Already Know
You really capitalized on that snow fall this winter. You've nailed some good shots. I think fog also transforms the familiar. I like how you can often isolate things without a noisy background.
Bryan, I bet snow it's probably big change in your photographic diet? I did manage take a few pictures during last year's snow fall. But, man, under heavy overcast conditions, the snow and light is so flat and scattered that it's a challenge to find something interesting. But I did find out I definitely need more practice to find a better exposure and development for such flat, textureless conditions. When it snows and everyone is avoiding the roads is when it's great to be out looking for pictures when you have a vehicle usable in those conditions.
Indeed, and this snow was accompanied by exactly that kind of flat lighting except for about 5 minutes the next morning when I saw the clouds open up briefly. I wasn't out photographing though. We definitely do not have a vehicle capable of safely traveling in that kind of snowfall so alas, I had to forgo going to a better landscape area.
I would've liked to go on the Appalachian Trail or elsewhere, maybe up to one of our waterfalls. I saw some nice photos online from folks that must have an ATV and live near some of those locales and it looked awesome. It's all melted now for the most part.
Tuco,
In our Northwest cloudy winter deep-gloom. I have had some success by taking an incident-light meter reading, opening up 3 stops, and developing my normal time. it works by increasing contrast--which is absent on our darkest cloudy days, I haven't tried this in snow when the clouds are thick.
Keith
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