Winter has finally arrived in Ottawa and I’ve been taking that opportunity to go out and enjoy the new scenery. This change in season requires a couple of changes in how to photograph.
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For the most part, I keep the same method, with a few tweaks listed below:
- Battery Voltage – In the cold weather, batteries don’t keep their charge as well. So, it is important to check out the battery level before you leave, or bring a spare with you.
- Plastic Bag – To reduce the fog on camera lenses, I’ve found that placing the camera in a plastic shopping bag while transporting it from a warm temperature to a cold one is quite successful.
- Over Exposure – Surprisingly, photographs look a bit better in the snow when they are slightly overexposed. One would think that all the snow would lead us to underexpose, but it seems to be the opposite.
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On of the things which I keep saying to myself that I will try to improve on is my shutter speed. As shown in the image below, I had it set to 1/800s which produced a very sharp result. It is usually a compromise where I put the shutter speed to 1/320 – 1/400 so that the ISO can be kept low. But I think that I may start bumping up the ISO quite a bit higher since the quick shutter speed gives a much sharper image (and I’ll probably be able to deal with the increase image noise through post production).
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…Running Extra…
In case you’ve not seen it, I found this great site which will show you the speed and location of a VIA train. This has been quite helpful when trying to find out if if you just missed the train or not.
