oceansoul
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HOWWW. I just cant seem to get it right. Either all focused on the falling snow, or to dark to see anything.
Any tips??
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morpheus22
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manual focus. and change your shutter speed and maybe a tripod to keep the subject in focus
[Edited on 06-01-2010 by morpheus22]
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morpheus22
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or is it the apature  . im still learning myself lol
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Adam_B
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What camera is it? If your camera has a manual setting, start using it. Id try and avoid photographing in really heavy snow fall unless your planning on using really slow shutter speeds and tripod.
heres an example, cloudy, snow falling -
 Hosted on Fotki
Focal Length: 55.0 mm
F-Number: F/10
Exposure Time: 0.0166 sec. 1/60th
ISO Speed: 200
no flash
auto focus
on a crappy old canon 400D
As you can see those setting have blown out most of the detail in the foregroud but kept the person and the background. Its all about compromise.
Keep playing, you will get it 
[Edited on 06-01-2010 by Adam_B]
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Scotty_B
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Adam is correct although shooting RAW and combining 2-3 images can sometimes help with the compromise. 
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AndyKent
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Manual focus if you're in half-decent light.
Add some positive exposure compensation if you're not using full manual mode. Otherwise the camera will compensate for all the white snow by trying to make it grey.
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Jake
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quote:
Originally posted by Adam_B
What camera is it? If your camera has a manual setting, start using it. Id try and avoid photographing in really heavy snow fall unless your planning on using really slow shutter speeds and tripod.
heres an example, cloudy, snow falling -
http://public.fotki.com/Adamski/other-stuff/out_and_about/2010/snow/mg-0148-jpg.htmlhttp://images52.fotki.com/v639/photos/0/911700/8316821/_MG_0148-vi.jpg
Focal Length: 55.0 mm
F-Number: F/10
Exposure Time: 0.0166 sec. 1/60th
ISO Speed: 200
no flash
auto focus
on a crappy old canon 400D
As you can see those setting have blown out most of the detail in the foregroud but kept the person and the background. Its all about compromise.
Keep playing, you will get it
[Edited on 06-01-2010 by Adam_B]
i suppose in that respect, if you had a tripod you could take one shot which gives you the best focus/exposure on the foreground and another which focuses on the subject and blend them together in p.s
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