winter sports photography questions.

[alexandermjoyce]

so i plan to do a lot of snowboard/ski photography this season, the question is... are there any solid suggestions for filters and such to be used? maybe for compensation when the sunlight is reflecting brightly off the snow. any tips for shooting solid snowboard photography would be awesome too..

i'll be using a d90, by the way. planning to use my 35mm & 18-105mm. thankkks a lot! :thumbup:

 

[alexandermjoyce]

great help you all are.

 

[swiftparkour94]

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[rlemert]

(I have often found that one of the best ways to generate 'correct' answers is to have someone - usually me - provide a sincere answer that turns out to be incorrect. So ... . )

From what I understand, the biggest problem with shooting scenes with lots of bright snow is that the camera has been designed to assume that the scene is, on average, gray. I believe this means that it will tend to underexpose, so you need to apply some positive exposure compensation.

(Now, let's see if my track record holds true.)

 

[MLeeK]

great help you all are.

That'll get you loads of help.
Try a bit of respect and see if it helps a little.
Or perhaps some THOUGHT as to why you got nothing. You posted at 4am. By the time the rest of us had time to get here and help you, your post was buried. I don't look at anything other than the current active posts. Try posting at a time of day when someone might SEE It? And if it doesn't get answered perhaps a bump with a bit of respect in it? Like, oh, say... maybe "bump"?

 

[snowbear113 45]

From what I understand, the biggest problem with shooting scenes with lots of bright snow is that the camera has been designed to assume that the scene is, on average, gray. I believe this means that it will tend to underexpose, so you need to apply some positive exposure compensation.

Yes, overexpose by a stop or two.

OP: I don't shoot sports so I can't answer. A little patience is a good thing, otherwise you could try going through the numerous posts here on "winter sports" search.

 

[brian_f2.8]

so i plan to do a lot of snowboard/ski photography this season, the question is... are there any solid suggestions for filters and such to be used? maybe for compensation when the sunlight is reflecting brightly off the snow. any tips for shooting solid snowboard photography would be awesome too..

i'll be using a d90, by the way. planning to use my 35mm & 18-105mm. thankkks a lot! :thumbup:

Id shoot at 1/20th of a second, around f 1.8 on your 35mm around 6400 ISO - you will get great shots there.

Sorry man but a little respect for others on this forum will go a long way.

 

[alexandermjoyce]

thank you, thank youuu.

 

[fjrabon]

you probably want to use a polarizing filter to cut down glare off the snow.

brian was just being sarcastic (in response to your original immature second posting), in daylit snow those settings will cause you to have a pure white image.

As others have said, I usually use aperture priority, and then just play around with exposure compensation. Every camera is different in how it treats snow scenes. Some need little if any correction, as they're smart enough to recognize snow when they see it, some try to turn snow into the tonality of concrete. The great thing about snow sports is that you almost never have to worry about having enough light to get a fast shutter speed to freeze the action. Usually you can shoot at base ISO, a middling f/stop and still have shutter speeds like 1/1000.