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Best settings to capture "snow in flight" during Blizzard?

Started Jan 21, 2016 | Discussions thread
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Re: Best settings to capture "snow in flight" during Blizzard?

You do not indicate exactly what you want to capture.  If it is a blizzard, snow will be failing at a very high rate, there will not be a lot of light, and backgrounds will quickly become covered with snow, so you do not see the snow flakes.  You probably want to pick some location with a darker background ( like an evergreen tree).  If you include a lot of distance, then it will become a white spotted image with a relatively fast shutter speed.  See the attached taken at the beginning of the last "blizzard" in northern NJ.  However, I was simply trying to see how many cardinals I could include in the image.

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