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

Started Jan 21, 2016 | Discussions thread
Michael L NYC 99
Michael L NYC 99 Veteran Member • Posts: 5,239
Re: Best settings to capture "snow in flight" during Blizzard?

Besides the E-PL6 for time lapse, you don't mention what body and lens you plan to use.  I assume you have weather sealed gear for this purpose.

As others have mentioned, a flash is needed to freeze and see the individual snow flakes.

Daytime is not a problem for flash sync speeds as it will undoubtedly be overcast when snowing.

I used the E-M5m2 with Panasonic 12-35 last year along with both the small accessory flash that came with the camera and the FL-600R.

My recollection is that I had to dial down the flash intensity on most occasions as it was too bright otherwise. Pointing the flash up a bit reduced the intensity in a nice way but leaves the bottom part of the image (if shooting in landscape orientation) without flash. This can still look good.

Here's a shot from Sunday when we had a light dusting of snow in New York.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/52836039@N02/24389508141/in/dateposted/

I used the small accessory flash and pointed the flash up about 45 degrees. Much of the bottom of the image has been cropped out, but I like that the ground isn't filled with snow flakes.

I tried wireless off camera flash last year with the FL-600R, but it was difficult because it is triggered by line of sight. It was hard to hold the camera in one hand and the flash in the other hand in a position that's in the line of sight of the on camera flash.

Michael

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