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Snowy Owl HANGTIME (Bubo scandiacus, Harfang des neiges, SNOW) from my Winter Snowy Owl Photo Tour in Ontario, Canada. Image Copyright ©Christopher Dodds. Sony a9 II Camera body & Sony FE 400mm f/2.8 G Master OSS Lens ISO 5,000, f/2.8 @ 1/4,000s…

Snowy Owl HANGTIME (Bubo scandiacus, Harfang des neiges, SNOW) from my Winter Snowy Owl Photo Tour in Ontario, Canada. Image Copyright ©Christopher Dodds. Sony a9 II Camera body & Sony FE 400mm f/2.8 G Master OSS Lens ISO 5,000, f/2.8 @ 1/4,000s. Manual exposure.

Snowy Owl HANGTIME

Christopher Dodds February 6, 2020

With the warm weather, the snow in the fields had melted and the disk tilled fields were soggy, to say the least. Our boots collected clay that got ridiculously heavy and extremely slippery. Needless to say, we welcomed the change in temperature and heavy snow - smile.

When photographing in the snow, it is really easy to determine the correct exposure; I usually set the aperture to wide open (f/2.8 in this case), decide my minimum acceptable shutter speed (1/4,000s in this case) and then adjust my ISO so that the light meter reads plus 1 & 2/3 spot off the snow in front of me. A quick test image will show the histogram pushed all the way to the right, but not touching the right side; exactly where the whites are supposed to reside to extract maximum details.

In Workshop Report Tags expose snow, snow exposure, how to expose snowy owl, Snowy Owl, snowy owl IPT, Snowy Owl Photo Tour, Snowy Owl Workshop, snowy owl, snowing
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