Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow
Lesson 25 from: Landscape Photography: Start to FinishMatt Kloskowski
Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow
Lesson 25 from: Landscape Photography: Start to FinishMatt Kloskowski
Lesson Info
25. Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow
Lessons
Course Introduction
08:52 25 Things Every Landscape Photographer Should Know
23:32 3Camera Gear
11:26 4Gear Q & A
33:04 5On Location: Weather & Safety
18:55 6On Location Pre-Visualzation Sutro Baths
07:29 7On Location: Camera Settings
21:59 8On Location: Composition
27:09Matt Klowskowski - My Story
06:28 10On Location: Bracketing
15:15 11On Location: Artistic Choices
16:12 12On Location: Pre-Visualzation Marshall's Beach
06:09 13On Location: Long Exposure
15:05 14On Location: iPhone
17:31 15On Location: Wrap Location
02:15 16Location Challenges: How to Shoot in Open Sun with No Clouds
01:52 17Location Challenges: How to shoot Cloudy, Stormy, & Blah Weather
01:50 18Location Challenges: How to shoot Beaches
01:27 19Location Challenges: How to shoot Waterfalls
01:40 20Location Challenges: How to shoot Panorama Vista Scenes
01:38 21Location Challenges: How to shoot Lakes
02:11 22Location Challenges: How to shoot Mountains
02:24 23Location Challenges: How to shoot Deserts
01:29 24Location Challenges: How to shoot City Skylines
01:44 25Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow
02:53 26Location Challenges: How to shoot Backlit Situations
06:56 27Outdoor Landscape Workflow & Organization
31:38 28Basic Editing in Lightroom: Part 1
44:17 29Basic Editing in Lightroom: Part 2
26:52 30Lightroom and Photoshop: Intermediate Techniques Pt. 1
30:35 31Lightroom and Photoshop: Intermediate Techniques Pt. 2
12:31 32HDR for Landscape Photography
07:54 33Panoramas for Landscape Photography
18:14 34How to shoot Landscape with Adobe Photoshop in Mind
21:14 35Sky Replacement in Photoshop
18:48 36Processing Project: Stormy Mountains
09:12 37Processing Project: Crashing Waves on the Rocks
10:01 38Processing Student Raw Images
41:03 39Final Q&A
14:17Lesson Info
Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow
Snow, so for me the big thing with snow is color temperature. So if you go back, even though snow, cold, everything, if you can mix the cold with the warm, it's a pretty cool-lookin' photo. Some of my favorite snow photos are when I see that cold temperature mixed with the warmth of the sun. And it just, to me, they really stand out nicely. They still follow the same compositional rules, you know, we're tryin' to get some foreground here. You got the photo on the left-hand side, you got the cold, cold temperatures. So color temperature, and then this one's tough but, it's best if it's untouched snow. You can't always do it but a fresh snow is really when you wanna be out there shooting it. So once it starts to get trampled with footprints, obviously, a tough thing to manage. And then the other thing is, even if it's not trampled with footprints, as the snow starts to melt or maybe there wasn't a lot of it, if it's mixed in with ground and dirt and stuff like that, it just looks muddy a...
nd yucky. So if you're gonna be out there and you're gonna be near snow, try to get out there right after a fresh snow. Again, the more snow the better. You want it to be pristine, untouched. And that's really the secret to makin' a good shot in those conditions. Yes, sir. For a scene like this where you have a lot of whites in the frame, how do you expose it? If you actually use something like, the auto-metering of the camera, it'll actually try to underexpose it, right? It'll try to make it gray and the picture look kind of, so what's the technique then? You know, the question is how do you expose something like this? I gotta tell you, I mean, I had it on matrix evaluative metering and just click. Cameras are really good these days. It used to be a bigger problem. Your cameras used to have, when metering wasn't quite as good. But it's so darn good these days that it gave me a great exposure right out of the camera. If I think about this one, it probably came in a little bit dark. But just the shadows, a little shadow slider inside of Lightroom opened it up a little bit for me. I wish I could tell you there was a big trick to it but it's gotten pretty easy lately.
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Ratings and Reviews
Christian Ruvolo
Mat Kloskowski class is really amazing, full of very useful tipps and inspiration. Wonderful pictures by him help to understand the explanations an I am learning A LOT from him!!! Thank you for the class!!! TOP!!!!
Louie
I love Matt's teaching style, humor, honesty, friendliness. I love On1 and all the other demos and critiques he does. He makes me enjoy the craft/art of photography much more and is a great inspiration.
a Creativelive Student
This class was for beginners and I believe Matt did a great job of giving students an great introduction to landscape photography. More on the practical than technical side, but that seems appropriate for an intro class. He comes across as a "real" guy who loves what he does and is eager to share his knowledge. Those new to photography will get a lot of helpful information and tips in this course.