Tips for Shooting Snow

It's that time of year! Photodoto has some tips for shooting snow:

Cameras are designed to expose for a nice, even medium grey. Grey, not white. So snow throws off the camera’s metering system, which tries to make the snow a nice shade of grey.

To compensate, you need to add light, which may seem counterintuitive on a bright day:

• If you are using a camera with a snow setting, use it.
• If you are using a camera without one, use exposure compensation to add one to one-and-a-half stops in the plus direction.
• If you are using a manual camera, do one of two things. Either use a spot meter to measure the actual light on a bright spot in the snow or else open the aperture one or more stops beyond what your averaging internal meter suggests.

More great tips: Perk up photos of snowy scenes with these simple and practical tips - by photodoto