Capturing the snow falling

[Farrah]

I am looking for a little help with capturing snow falling. I have tried a few times to get a good image of my kids with the snow falling all around and just can't seem to get it right.. I do shoot manual and rarely use a flash. I have seen amazing images on here so if you could share your picture or any help full tips I would be greatful. Thanks

[Tata]

I would love to know too :)

[Robyn]

For this photo, I used a 200 mm zoom and focused on something up close to condense the snow that was falling in the background and to create a bokeh effect. I also increased my shutter speed to freeze the snow in air, and upped the ISO to compensate for the quick shutter. I don't know if this is the best approach, but it's been one of my most successful photos of falling snow thus far. I look forward to reading other people's approaches, too!

ISO 1250, 200 mm focal length, f 5.6 and 1/1000 shutter speed

[Alexis Birkill]

The key is a very fast shutter speed. You want to freeze the snowflakes, otherwise they blur and just turn your photo slightly greyer than it otherwise would be, but without otherwise showing up much.

Try a shutter speed of at least 1/800th of a second. If you don't have a fast lens then you'll need to bump the ISO up considerably, especially as it tends to be quite dark when it's snowing.

This shot was taken at 1/2000th, f/2.8, ISO 1000:



And this one at 1/800th, f/1.8, ISO 4000:

[Paula]

I found what helped was a fast speed and using my on camera flash so that the light bounced off the flakes. Now mind you we only had about 15 minutes of snow and it was not heavy but here is my one snow shot on here that is not showing a grand snow scene, but you can freeze the flakes (or clumps in our climate)

[Lesley Chisholm]

This one I used 1/200 sec but perhaps if it had been even faster it would have looked better?

[☠northy]

i have some (but not on 365) that were taken at night with a flash... which i think kind of worked... but a lot of the flakes showed up as bokeh...

[Lyn]

I was pleased with the snow in this one, especially because this is nowhere near one of my fast lenses' capabilities:



1/320th, f.6.3, ISO 2500

[☠northy]

here it is...

[Jeff Walker]

darker backgrounds work much better, but in broad daylight, I got this one with heavy snowfall (if you look in the background, you can barely make out the trees... they're only a block away)

[Jeff Walker]

@rockinrobyn I LOVE yours

[Farrah]

Thank You all for the great ideas and the images. I have been shooting at 1/1000, I guess I need to give it another try.....now if it would only snow again.