hello great to see you all again in today's video I'm talking all about
winter I've got some great tips ideas and tricks to get some great winter
landscapes
okay so let's get going hope everyone had a good holiday and I'm sure if
you're like me and you're probably sick of just eating too many chocolates so
Winter was a great time to get out and start shooting well one of the great
things about winter is the suns at a lower angle in the sky so those golden hours
just last a little bit longer and you can pretty much shoot throughout the
whole day. So what I'm gonna do today is go through seven tips and ideas
to get some better winter shots. Okay the first thing is color, so color really
matters I think in winter photography often you look at a scene and it's quite
monochromatic. So the snow and the lack of leaves on the trees really create a
very sort of black and white scene but if you can add a little bit of color
into it then it makes a really big difference to that image so I'm going to
go through a couple of images now and show you a little bit more about what I
mean so this one here this image before I do this actually I'll just show you
the color wheel so the color wheel, on the color wheel you can see that the
blue and the oranges are sort of opposite sides of the color wheel so if
you can get those contrasting colors and quite often in a snowy scene or a cold
looking scene then you have some blue so if you can get an orange color in that
scene as well then they really complement each other and you can get a
really good image. So in this image here this was taken in France you know this
would be a an okay landscape but these huts I've added here in the
intersection of the Thirds really add to the dynamic of this image so just
that little splash of color in the image makes a really big difference and then
again looking at this image which I talked and actually this was also in the
Alps in France it's a very blue looking scene it was early in the morning and I
was driving back down the mountain actually and the Sun that was just
rising as it was rising you can see just caught the top of the mountains here and
it made such a big difference to the to the image now you could convert this
into black and white and it just wouldn't look anywhere near as good it's
that splash of color that splash of orange in the clouds on top of the
mountain which really makes this image and brings this winter landscape to life
so it's a really good idea whether that colors created by the Sun cast in some
great light on the landscape or it's just maybe just a little bit of
light that you spot out on a hut or maybe a person that's got a different
color coat on you often see if you look on Instagram people wearing yellow or
red in winter scenes and it just looks so good really concentrate on color and
how you use color in your landscapes and I think you'll find that you can get
some amazing shots you know just really look for those colors maybe then just
the last leaf on a tree and you'll find oak trees keep their leaves for a bit
longer and you might just find them and a leaf or a hot and then also you can
use white balance to your advantage as well so the the white balance that you
would add in an image makes a really big difference to that image so for instance
here and an image that I've shown in one of my previous videos sun tree it's one
of my favorite images but if I show you this image as the camera took it you can
see it's quite a warm looking image but if I just adjust the white balance to
how I thought it was that morning which is a lot colder then you can see that
the coldness in the frost it was about -7oC it is really
brought out in the foreground of the image so thinking about the white
balance is a really important in winter scenes and adjust in that white balance
tip to complement the mood of your image makes a really big difference to the
scene and the shot and what you're trying to portray in the story of that
image so you know really think about that make sure you shoot on Raw so that
you're not locking that white balance into the photo and then
you can change it in Lightroom later top tip that I use is that I shoot all my
shots on sunny white balance and then I know that the white balance when I look
at them in Lightroom is all the same and then I can adjust it to how I think I
want it to look to again reflect the story of that image so the second tip is
using snow and ice and frost to aid the composition of your image so often snow
and simplicity to an image it reduces the complexity of the grass and the
things that might be on the grass and creates a more even uniform layer and
you can use that to your advantage and creative strong images so this is a
really good example here this was a hill near where I live called
Shutlingsloe and you can see that the contrast of the walls the stone hot here
against the snow is really quite strong and you can also use a long lens to take
further advantage of this that photo that I took in folk in Scotland on my
first video in Scotland which is linked here just shows that off really well so
you can see that again the snow is created a more simplistic landscape and
reduced a lot of the different colors in the landscape and that creates a very
strong composition so this image here was an image that I took of a wall
leading down into the distant hills and mountains and you can see how the snow
has really helped that composition that's not the best-ever image here but
it demonstrates the point so the snow on the wall has created more texture on the
wall the snow on the rock and the background this picked out some details
of the rock so by using snow it changes the composition of the image slightly
and you can add to the wrong elements that often exist in images you can do
that with the way the snow lands on trees or the way it lands on leaves or
the way it lands on the ground and rocks and it really can improve your images
don't just think that if a beautiful scene has snow on it that you're going
to get an amazing image because it doesn't always work that way things can
look really amazing but actually when you're going take them or trying to find
a composition it can be difficult and snow can make it difficult so this is a
funny story when I was in Squaw which is in California that there was a huge snow
fall around about two foot of snow fell and we were passing by this river here
and I just couldn't find the composition and I actually waded through some really
deep snow to try and get there and no matter what I did I just couldn't find a
composition well what I should have done is put a longer lens on and tried to
pick out some detail but I'd also already waded down this really deep snow
and I just I just couldn't face doing it again it was so hard to get up and down
the the snow but if if I'd have thought about to put a longer lens on and tried
to pick out some detail in these trees in the middle of
the scene but but just snow just doesn't always make an amazing landscape just
straight in front of you you've still got to go and try and find that
composition so the third thing is concentrate on the details look for
details ice patterns the way that the snow and
the wind does blow in the snow and you can often find some really abstract
images in that I was taking an image of some snow that had been blown by the
wind and it was really great I have my macro lens on and I'll try to zoom in a
little bit closer and you can see this this is where I've used white bounce to
my advantage I really cooled down the image to create a really cold feeling
and it almost looks like a drone shot when I'm looking down on some mountains
you can also do it and photograph with a macro lens the ice crystals as well if
you get really close up and use the macro lens to quit some amazing bokeh in
the background if you get it just right then you can create sort of rainbow
effects in that bokeh as well and it can look really amazing and then by using
backlighting and getting close in on the the way that the ice forms on their
grasses again you can create some really stunning results so here's some grass
that has just been backlit by some beautiful morning light and you can see
where the frost has just created this spectacular look to the way the grass is
showing and again by using a really narrow depth of field can really pick
out the details in that grass so just look a bit closer and try and think
about how you can use your camera in a slightly different way and you can get
some amazing result so the fourth idea is trying to portray the mood of the day
and the conditions on the day so don't be put off if it's snowing really hard
or if it's really frosty or if it's foggy because often the conditions that
you get in winter and the way you portray those conditions can create a
really really strong image so the first image I want to show you here was an
image that I took and this was actually taken with my iPhone that was on a
one-to-one workshop it really started to snow really hard we were putting our
gear away and then I said I actually think we could get quite a good image
here of the snow coming down so I got my iPhone out just just to demonstrate what
we might be able to get which is obviously a good tool to use as well you
know just getting your iPhone and taking shots to see whether it might work on
that worked out around about one fiftieth of a second which works really
well for snow trips no streaks and you can see that that adds a really great
layer to the image which simplifies the image a little bit so I was really
pleased with that again the image that I've spoken about before I did a video
on how I edited this image and how editing it to portray the mood was
really important it was an image that I took when I was at River brothei in the
Lake District and it was a really cold morning and we really wanted to portray
that cold but also the song was rise and it looked quite you know there was a
really glow to it as well so I I edited it slightly different for the top and
bottom of the image so the top is a warmer white balance in the bottom so a
little bit of a cold or white balance and by doing that it's created a quite
strong image that reflects the mood so the fifth thing is to take care with
your exposure it's really important to when you're taking snow scenes to make
sure that you just don't go out there put it on full auto and take some images
because what you'll find is a lot of them are underexposed you camera tends
to expose for a neutral gray in the image and I think that's about 17
percent gray but when you have a lot of white in it it assumes that that's meant
to be gray and under expose of the image so what you want to do is that you want
to push up the exposure now obviously what you should be doing is looking at
your histogram all the time but if you push up the exposure on on your image
and make sure your histogram isn't clipping the highlights then you've got
a properly exposed image and you really want to be exposing to the right pushing
you a histogram to the right as much as possible to get the best out of your
sensor and these are two images that I wanted to show where where this was was
definitely the case the first one is the Alps again this was an image that if I
show you the image that I took first here then you can see so underexposed
and then I corrected the exposure and you can see this is the image that with
a correct exposure now if I use the first image and try to bring out some of
the shadow detail then I get more noise so it's really important to expose it
correctly in don't be fooled by your sensor. Expose
for the highlights and maybe just spot meter to the highlights is often a good way
of doing it The sixth thing shoot in the morning I
can't stress how important it is to get out early in the morning and shoot in
winter I find that probably 90% of my shots are shot in the morning in winter
much more so than any other season of the year because you get frost on the
floor you get the fresh fall of snow you get amazing atmospheric conditions in
the morning which you just don't get in the evening This image here was one where
I was actually walking Pebbles and we were just on the top of a hill it just
been a fresh snowfall and you can see the window just blowing the snow into
some really great patterns to create great leading lines down into the valley
and the Sun just create this amazing glow in the top right so by getting out
in the morning and using that low Sun allowed me to really pick up on those
patterns in the foreground but also create a great glow in the top right so
came out in the morning is so important again this was a shot that I took in
Yosemite it was amazing conditions the fog was
still hanging in the valley and the Sun was crane is amazing golden rays through
the trees and if I'd have been there an hour or so later that Miss had have gone
and I wouldn't have got those great conditions so yeah
getting out in the morning makes such a big difference to your
photography. Okay, the final and seventh thing that I would recommend when you're
trying to do some great winter photography is love the trees so trees
obviously have lost all their leaves or deciduous trees have lost all their
leaves in the winter they show their true shapes and their characters and you
can get some amazing shots of trees in the winter weather that's trees that
have had fresh snow on them or trees that are just in the landscape that
haven't had any snow on them or maybe just got a little bit of frost on them
you should go out and try and photograph them so here I Here I am photographing
some trees that have just had some fresh snow on them and they just look
fantastic you can see all the veins of the all
brunches and it picks out all the detail in those branches and you can create
some amazing shots in it with with snow on those trees but you don't have to
have snow on the trees here's a shot where it was just the the border between
autumn and winter this tree which have shot so many times before has lost its
leaves and the shape of it just just was really beautiful but by going when it
was a hard frost it created a different dynamic to the image and again I was out
in the morning here and the morning light just cast a fantastic light on the
backdrop you know that the frost on the wall just gives you that cold feeling
you know it's winter when you look at this image so yeah you know going out
and photographing trees is a great idea but you don't have to do it even in the
frost so here's one that I did at Rydal Water in the Lake District often you get
mist on Rydal Water in the winter you get a lot more mist and fog in the
winter than you do in the summer months and it's a lot easier to get up and
photograph that fog in the morning and it creates a better look with some
of the deciduous trees as well so you can see the shape of the deciduous trees
when you print this image and I printed this image at a A2 then it it just looks
fantastic you can pick up all the details of all the branches and all the
trees in the background and it just you want to look around the image and look
for different different shapes in there and it just really just look brilliant
so there's some tips there's some great ideas to get out and shoot in winter
there's obviously loads of other things that you can do I wanted to share some
things I thought were really important but what you've got to do now is get out
and shoot you know the most important thing is when it snows when there's some
frost when there's some cold conditions some fog or whatever go out and shoot
take advantage of that low light that lasts often throughout the day and get
some great shots so I wanted to thank everybody once again for watching my
video and subscribing when we're now on 11,000 subscribers and I'm just so
grateful to everybody this year has just been such an amazing year really really
enjoyed making these videos and I've got so much planned for 2018
I am going to some different countries to shoot and I'm gonna have a quite a
lot more workshops so if you're not signed up for my newsletter then sign up
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one-to-one workshops as well okay thanks ever so much for watching
and I'll see you next Sunday bye
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