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

Started Jan 21, 2016 | Discussions thread
Paulmorgan Veteran Member • Posts: 9,499
Re: Best settings to capture "snow in flight" during Blizzard?

alexisgreat wrote:

So we have a Blizzard Watch up in Long Island for Saturday for up to 2 feet of snow and I was wondering what's the best way to capture snowflakes in flight when snow is falling at a very fast rate? We could have up to 4 inches per hour! In the past when I tried this, I would get disappointed and only see all the flakes blend into a white blur. I want to have a fast enough shutter speed to capture individual flakes as they fall and yet have the whole scene bright enough to see the background too. The good thing is the heaviest snow will be falling in the afternoon which is pretty rare- most of our snowstorms have the heaviest snow at night, so this will be during the brightest part of the day, great for photography!

I'm going to use spot metering, but am wondering how much exposure compensation I should use as well as the shutter speed and ISO. I am going to use shutter priority mode and the aperture will be at the maximum.

Might end up doing a timelapse with the E-PL6 too.

Your not going to need anything particularly flashy, I went out and shot in a snow blizzard one night with nothing more than an Olympus trip and 400 iso film, the shutter speed most of been something like 1/40s.

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