You want to take great photos in snow? I have three mistakes for you you should
avoid.
Maybe you live in a place where it's very very cold and you want to take
awesome photos outside during cold weather and there's the first mistake
you may be already recognized. Maybe you have taken some photos and you have like
30% of your battery left and then suddenly out of nowhere you have like
zero battery dead. So that's because of the temperature. You want to change the
battery and then the next batteries also dead. That's what happened to me already
so what I can recommend you is always to keep your batteries in a very warm place.
Like for example your pockets of your pants or inside of your jacket so where
you have some warm temperatures and then you can change the batteries and
sometimes even it helps when you have an empty battery, in cold weather and you
just put the battery off your camera inside your jacket on a warm place and
then you have some energy left so don't leave it in the front of a back or
something, outside in the pocket or even in your backpack. That might kill your
battery. They won't die forever, most of the times but they will die maybe in
this case and you will miss great shot.
Mistake number two has something to do with your lens and I photographed a lot
of times during heavy snow, in bad weather conditions, even with sand all
around me and I never had any problem with my camera because I don't change my
lens, but when you change your lens in cold weather conditions or even when
it's snowing from the top you might get some problems inside of the camera
because moisture stays inside when you put your lands back on. It's like a seal
when the lens is on, everything is sealed. You don't even need a pen tracks or
something also with the Sony I never had any problems but the moisture stays
inside when the lens is on. Even when you just change your lens with your gloves
and you have like snow on your gloves some snow might get inside the camera
and it's a bad idea. Also when you go back from a very cold place to a warm
place like your home your flat or your car yeah even when your car is hot
inside don't change your lens try to avoid it
for at least one hour try to keep the camera bit up not late somewhere on the
heater or know something that's a bad idea as well but just leave it like it
is laid on the table and then everything is cool like after one hour you can
change your lens no problem but I try to avoid to change the lenses when I'm
outside during wet weather
mistake number three is something to do with the metering in your camera when
you have a bright spot like snow is usually very bright your camera thinks
it's too bright and it will under expose the shot in most of the situations so
what I would recommend you is to use manual mode that's what I would
recommend you all of the time but when you don't use manual mode to manually
improve your exposure you can use these semi-automatic modes like TV AV or here
on the Sony S and a and you can use your exposure correction like for example on
plus one then every image will get a bit brighter out of camera or your camera
says every image should be a bit brighter that will help you in a snowy
situation like usually have where it's snowing
those were three mistakes you should avoid when you photograph and very cold
weather conditions and I want to know which one of the mistakes you already
did we honest to yourself and write it in the comments below and if you have
any topic any photography topic or thing I should talk about also write it in the
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interested in photography and especially in photographing in cold conditions so
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