Shoot snow from door and windows.

[Hui Song]

There was a big snow storm . the day before yesterday. I had to work from home. So I shot some snow pictures from the door and windows of my house. I tested different shutter speed to freeze the flying snow. It was a very interesting day. C/C welcome.



1/15 sec at f/8.0, ISO 100


1/40 sec at f/5.6 ISO 320


1/40 sec at f/16 ISO 320


1/160 sec at f/8.0 ISO　２００


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1/40 sec at f/5.6 ISO　４００

[Shadowman]

Nice.

[Hui Song]

Thanks John for your quick comment. I was till adding more pictures. The #7 is the last one.

[Nancy Moran G]

Brrrrr. Hoe you have supplies til spring
Nancy

[mknittle]

Very nice Hui. I think I will have to put another log on the fire.

[Marie Hass]

It would be great if you would include the shutter speeds that you used on each? Also, did you hand hold or use tripod?

Nice pictures. My kids in Maryland had close to 18".

Marie

[Dave Humphries]

Hi Hui,

I appreciate these are shutter speed test shots, so I'll make the observation for the benefit of others.

When processing shots like this - well, the ones that are predominantly less saturated, it is important to correct the chromatic aberration, I note this is present in #1 and especially #3.

FWIW I usually fail to find anything I'd do differently in your 'competition' shots

I agree with Marie; it would be useful to know the shutter speeds, I'd suggest something just a bit faster than #2 and slower than #6 at those focal length/magnifications - I suspect what looks 'right' will vary depending upon the size of the 'flakes relative to the image size.

Another thought (I've no recent experience to draw on - I'm just thinking it through) is that I guess you're trying to show the speed of the 'flakes compared to the background, which you'd probably want rendered sharp, but if that background includes trees and it is windy, their branches will also be blurred by movement during the exposure time.

Hope that helps (someone),

[Hui Song]

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[Hui Song]

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[Marie Hass]

Hui,

Thank you. Just curious as to what conclusions you drew from your experiment?

I think if I did this, I would ask what I wanted to measure (the effect of shutter speed on rendering images of snow). Given that, there are several constants. 1. stay with the same background (tripod would be good to limit movement) 2. change only shutter speed, leaving ISO and f the same. 3. shoot all in a very short time frame so the stuff you cannot control (light, amount of snow in the air, wind) stay as constant as possible.

Marie

[Wavelength]

WOW...snowsome

really liked them

[Hui Song]

Hui,

Thank you. Just curious as to what conclusions you drew from your experiment?

I think if I did this, I would ask what I wanted to measure (the effect of shutter speed on rendering images of snow). Given that, there are several constants. 1. stay with the same background (tripod would be good to limit movement) 2. change only shutter speed, leaving ISO and f the same. 3. shoot all in a very short time frame so the stuff you cannot control (light, amount of snow in the air, wind) stay as constant as possible.

Marie

Sorry to reply your request late.
From this experiment, I do get some feeling about how to shoot the falling snow. First, I need set shutter speed faster than 1/10 second to show a clear snow trail. The shape of the snow trail depend on the shutter speed, how fast the snow is falling and the wind direction. I like the white line snow trail gotten from the 1/40 seconds setting. Also, the snow trail only is shown at the darker background part of the image. If you want freeze the motion of the snow, the shutter speed should be set 1/125 seconds or faster. I like the image result from 1/160~1/250 second.
The exposure should be keep the same after you decide what you want to show in the image. You can adjust both the aperture and ISO to achieve the different shutter speed. Just keep in mind the relationship between aperture and DOF, ISO and noise.

BTW, I tried always shoot landscape picture with camera on tripod.

[Hui Song]

Hi Hui,

I appreciate these are shutter speed test shots, so I'll make the observation for the benefit of others.

When processing shots like this - well, the ones that are predominantly less saturated, it is important to correct the chromatic aberration, I note this is present in #1 and especially #3.

FWIW I usually fail to find anything I'd do differently in your 'competition' shots

I agree with Marie; it would be useful to know the shutter speeds, I'd suggest something just a bit faster than #2 and slower than #6 at those focal length/magnifications - I suspect what looks 'right' will vary depending upon the size of the 'flakes relative to the image size.

Another thought (I've no recent experience to draw on - I'm just thinking it through) is that I guess you're trying to show the speed of the 'flakes compared to the background, which you'd probably want rendered sharp, but if that background includes trees and it is windy, their branches will also be blurred by movement during the exposure time.

Hope that helps (someone),

Thanks Dave for all your comments.

For the chromatic aberration, the only way I know is using the "Lens Corrections" in LR to reduce that. The #1 and #3 are HDR image. They get more chromatic aberration after the HDR image is created in PS. I did click the "remove chromatic aberration" in LR, But it seams does not work. Is there any other way to do this?

I did put the shutter speed information by the image now. For this time, I just wan to know how the snow flakes image will be at different speed. If I shoot the falling snow again, I need decide how I want the falling snow shown in the image before I shoot, then I can set the speed accordingly. A bracket exposure with difference speed is always best way to go, right?

I want to do the same shutter speed test for water in stream, river, waterfall and at sea shore. Furthermore, I want to test the speed setting for cloud and star.