Pembrokeshire Portrait Photographer - outside portraits of babies, toddlers, children and family

Hello there, I know I have not updated in a while, I have been really busy with the Tax Return and finihsing off last years albums – just 2 to go now ! – Had a great meeting today with a prospective bride for 2010 and had time to play today.

Getting snow pictures just right is pretty hard, I shot the following pictures in manual mode after metering the light with a light meter – I use the Sekonic 758D, its a little on the expensive side at around £420.00 but for tricky lighting situations its MUCH better than in camera metering.

If you look at the pictures below and you find that you cant see detail in the snow its probably the fact your monitor is too bright. My digital workflow is colour calibrated and my monitors are checked each week to make sure the images I work on are exactly they way I see them.

Generally when you shoot a snowy photo on a ‘point and shoot’ camera or if you use a digital SLR (DSLR) there built in meter compensates for the snow and under exposes the photo, you can pull it back but shooting it right produces more more pleasing results.

So his morning we awoke to find snow on the ground – at 8 am we were out playing in it ! – what you may also find strange is that I used off camera flash to light these photos – if you look at number 5 you can see a shadow where I caught Joshua’s hand mid flight – by using additional light (off camera) you can define your photos, you can create shape and depth to them and make them look much better than just snapshots.

Here is a pic, there are 10 in total – to see them all, follow the link below this picture

enjoy.