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Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow

Lesson 25 from: Landscape Photography: Start to Finish

Matt Kloskowski

Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow

Lesson 25 from: Landscape Photography: Start to Finish

Matt Kloskowski

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Lesson Info

25. Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow

Lessons

Class Trailer
1

Course Introduction

08:52
2

5 Things Every Landscape Photographer Should Know

23:32
3

Camera Gear

11:26
4

Gear Q & A

33:04
5

On Location: Weather & Safety

18:55
6

On Location Pre-Visualzation Sutro Baths

07:29
7

On Location: Camera Settings

21:59
8

On Location: Composition

27:09
9

Matt Klowskowski - My Story

06:28
10

On Location: Bracketing

15:15
11

On Location: Artistic Choices

16:12
12

On Location: Pre-Visualzation Marshall's Beach

06:09
13

On Location: Long Exposure

15:05
14

On Location: iPhone

17:31
15

On Location: Wrap Location

02:15
16

Location Challenges: How to Shoot in Open Sun with No Clouds

01:52
17

Location Challenges: How to shoot Cloudy, Stormy, & Blah Weather

01:50
18

Location Challenges: How to shoot Beaches

01:27
19

Location Challenges: How to shoot Waterfalls

01:40
20

Location Challenges: How to shoot Panorama Vista Scenes

01:38
21

Location Challenges: How to shoot Lakes

02:11
22

Location Challenges: How to shoot Mountains

02:24
23

Location Challenges: How to shoot Deserts

01:29
24

Location Challenges: How to shoot City Skylines

01:44
25

Location Challenges: How to shoot Snow

02:53
26

Location Challenges: How to shoot Backlit Situations

06:56
27

Outdoor Landscape Workflow & Organization

31:38
28

Basic Editing in Lightroom: Part 1

44:17
29

Basic Editing in Lightroom: Part 2

26:52
30

Lightroom and Photoshop: Intermediate Techniques Pt. 1

30:35
31

Lightroom and Photoshop: Intermediate Techniques Pt. 2

12:31
32

HDR for Landscape Photography

07:54
33

Panoramas for Landscape Photography

18:14
34

How to shoot Landscape with Adobe Photoshop in Mind

21:14
35

Sky Replacement in Photoshop

18:48
36

Processing Project: Stormy Mountains

09:12
37

Processing Project: Crashing Waves on the Rocks

10:01
38

Processing Student Raw Images

41:03
39

Final Q&A

14:17

Lesson 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.

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