I took the set to the conservatory where I hoped for more light, but still, with ISO as high as I dare (800) and F stop as low as the camera would allow in the circumstances (f5.5) I was only left with a speed of 1/60th despite some deliberate under exposure. This meant that I could not get the individual specks of snow flowing down, and was still left with a blur. I don't know what further I can do to change that.
I did switch to a bigger sieve - but you see that even this failed to distribute the snow across the whole picture - except for in one shot which looks more like a foggy day than a snow fall.
Also switched from icing sugar to flour. I thought perhaps that would be less wasteful - it didn't have much of an effect on the photogaphic result.
The other thing I learned was how to manual focus and change the exposure from my phone - and using the phone as a remote to control the camera. I had done that once before, but so long ago that I had forgotten how.
Thanks for following my get pushed challenge this week. It certainly gave me something to think about. My challenge was to take a shot of something floating/moving such as water, powder, honey, milk or glitter.
I am so impressed...not only with the "product" but you're entire "process". Thank you so much for going through all the steps. You certainly handled the foreground and lighting issues as well as that for which you were "challenged". Am I correct in assuming that is you huddling through the magic of composite?
@granagringa yes it is me - from the year I did 52 selfie challenges (well I ran out of steam at the end) . I felt the image needed something there to balance it.
wow helen. totally love this! it may not look quite like snow, but it certainly looks like sleet, which creates the atmosphere very nicely. we have some toy houses like this knocking about somewhere - if you don't mind, i may dig them out! fabulous work on your get pushed challenge :)
