oh dear
it laid hi guys welcome or welcome back we have finally got some snow so today
we've headed up to the wolds and i'm hoping that you can hear me okay i'm
trying to protect the mic from the wind but we're gonna shoot
peep in the snow and just cover off some things that we might need to be aware of
okay so for the purposes of this video we're gonna not be out here too long because it's
below zero and it's freezing cold so please go ahead and if you haven't already watch the
portrait photography basics video which i will link above and um yeah join us back here and
we'll cover off snow specifics not gonna lie to you guys it's been five years since i last no
six years since i last shot in snow so uh this could be interesting but there's a few principals
to keep in mind today we're going to be shooting on fully manual not on one of the semi-auto
settings however if you're using a semi-auto setting crank up your exposure compensation a
little bit because the white will confuse the camera i'll switch on the monitor here i don't
use this to shoot i use it so that you guys can see exactly what i can see through my camera
it is a pain to work with but i hope you guys appreciate it little pips gonna have to have
a little coaty taken off right you're not having your headcollar off just yet but in a minute so looking
through the viewfinder here at the yorkshire wolds pretty isn't it this is where i grew
up you can see the histogram and there is a spike in highlights but the spike is not on white that
means that we have not blown out any highlights if our histogram looked like this then we have got
a problem because the data is all up at that side we want to be just off of that with our
snow but not too far down most cameras will get confused and pop your exposure somewhere around
this point which is why when you're using exposure compensation just make sure that you pop it up a
little bit to get some of that beautiful snow in we've already set the white balance on this
camera but you want to make sure that your white balance is correct because obviously with snow
snow is supposed to be white so when we're looking at our kelvin values of our white balance we could
go too warm or too cool so most cameras will probably get a little bit wrong pop it too cool
we want to be at the correct point there we go so we're back at good perfect white balance so then
the next thing to look at is really our just our normal settings am i going to stop camera shake
yes i'm using a 70 - 200 lens and it's uh absolutely fine at 1/1250th of a second i'm an iso 100 and
we're f 2.8 if i need more light i'm going to play with my shutter speed not my iso or my aperture
okie coke so keeping an eye on the histogram at all times i'm going to set pippi up using the
principles of how to create a blurry background show a link above using a nice long focal length
and a low aperture it's going to snow again here pretty soon i've got a feeling or we're going
to be blasted by sunshine so we best shoot so looking for a gap behind which we've got
pippi wait so pippi's like i'm going to eat this
because we're slightly dark there good girl pippi wait
so just increasing exposure keep an eye on that histogram pretty gal pretty girl down good girl
okay good girl bring okie cokey so we just put pippy before we go back into the wood because
it's going to snow heavy we're just going to pop pippi it for a straight line shot
pippi pippi going down again into the snow
so you're watching your highlights now they're getting close you've got some clip in so
we will just bring the exposure up a touch
you can always put your shadows up you can't always pull your highlights pippi good girl ready
good wait there so i'm having focusing issues story of my life
it is actually snowing right now so before we get stuck in a blizzard i just want to cover
off what to do if you've got snow coming in front of the camera because snow coming in front of the
camera is a really common issue to have so what you should do realistically i know in our how
to take action photographs video we discussed keeping the responsivity up to like the top
number five in situations where you've got snow coming in front of the camera you want to actually
do the opposite of that so that it will retain
the focus on where it was instead of trying to refocus all the time on snow so with that in mind
yes in a minute we're going in a minute we're going to go into our af tracking sensitivity on
sony cameras focus tracking with lock-on on nikon cameras and i can't remember what the
canon one is i'm sure someone will put it in the comments so you want to go on that and bring the
responsivity down two should be fine pee pee before it stops snowing we ought to try and get
a photograph so we've got pippi in a wait got the snow coming over from the side wait ready
ready if you want super clear snow you need to make sure that you should be changing this onto
pippi wait low continuous if you want super clear snow you need to make sure that you are
um on a high enough shutter speed ready ready look at this snow ready so all real snow today okay
so i've got a shot i just want to try pippi come snow bear keep my spot where's your ball close
your mouth ready good wow okay so there's this insane log but it's just so crowded by all of
these branches that you won't get any background separation at all it might be worthwhile shooting
down it but i don't think it's one for today just because i don't know what's underneath peep
so we're going to carry on pop her on the ridge of this log that we are coming up to down here
we're going to try and use this bizarre fallen tree here we've got some good spiky
endy bits we've got some good spiky uppy bits so we're going to try and utilize them before
we get absolutely soaked and freezing cold if everything's still recording at the moment then
we're doing something good because none of this is waterproof apart from the camera
good ready we're getting so cold and wet down down wow okay superstar superstar we'll pop her
back and do some more wow i'll go for through this gap which is going to be an interesting shot to get
ready pippi hop up good waiting waiting waiting come down wait come down good wait hopefully
i won't fall down the hill but there's time yet you ready are you ready keep me down nice
turn down our exposure pippi down pippi down wow ready wow moving to that side ready ready steady
good okay round wow oh my goodness right guys we can do abort mission head back
it is so snowing so cold i'm going to show you the pictures that we took on the screen right
now and if you have any questions please drop them down in the comments box below i'll see
you again really soon and just yeah everyone be thankful that we've got the white stuff yay