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

Started Jan 21, 2016 | Discussions thread
OP alexisgreat Veteran Member • Posts: 6,459
Re: Best settings to capture "snow in flight" during Blizzard?

drj3 wrote:

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.

Thanks I love this shot!  I want to capture individual snowflakes against a background of evergreen trees, which gives the image the nice contrast it needs.  But the snow is falling at 3 inches per hour (it's actually happening right now.)  16 inches down, maybe another foot plus to go!

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