Best settings to capture "snow in flight" during Blizzard?
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Re: Talk about dynamic range!
alexisgreat wrote:
K25 wrote:
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!
This is the snow photo I took yesterday while arriving home after vacations: 1/30", but snow was falling slowly

... and just for information: a few hours earlier at Medano (Tenerife). Sigh...

Talk about a high dynamic range I wonder what you would get if you combined the two photos (in a creative way so you could see details of both.)
you mean, something like this?
Sigh... (10 hours later)
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