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Tips on Winter Photography

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Photographing during winter can give many different conditions. Some wet and foggy, some snowy and some even stormy and snowy. Here are some tips on photographing them. In my continued endeavor on exploring my home country Denmark, I went out on a snowy day to a landscape photography landmark called Rubjerg Knude Lighthouse. It is an old lighthouse being swallowed by a dune. A rather unique location and phenomenon. I have been to this location plenty of times, but always during summer where the Milky Way lines up with the lighthouse. This time I visited during winter, where I had some fantastic moody, snowy and stormy conditions. I tried out several different angles while there, but it was my previsualized photo which worked out the best and it might become one of my favorite photos of 2019. A top tip I do not share in the video, but I realized too late, is to wear crampons. You will hear why in the video. On the same day, I also visited an old mill where I share so...

7 Lightroom Tips to Transform Your Winter Photos

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The frigid winter months provide an exceptional opportunity to capture unique photos, but they aren’t the easiest to create due to extreme weather conditions and the many post-processing nuances related to snowy winter photography. In this 14-minute video, I review 7 Lightroom tips that have helped me along the way with my winter post-processing workflow. 1. Change Your Background This tip actually has nothing to do with your image, but rather the canvas you’re working on. Right-clicking the background and changing the color to white creates a good reference point for absolute white and will certainly help you with the remainder of your edit. 2. Adjusting White Balance Adjusting the White Balance can be a tricky proposition due to the reflective nature of snow. If you use the eyedropper to target a neutral color (snow) this will almost always result in Lightroom over warming the photo. I’ve found that setting the white balance to Auto and then reducing the ...