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The beauty of snow in a snapshot

If the subject is small, such as this boy, then it is necessary to approach him and photograph from a level position, while striving to keep the camera ready to take a later picture of him during his movement.

We can take the best pictures on a sunny day, in the snow, out of a window, or on one of our regular winter ski trips, as long as it only costs us to add a pocket camera to our gear.

Sometimes, and perhaps during the period when we think that winter will remain harsh and coincide with a gloomy atmosphere, the bright sun shines, transforming everything that surrounds us into shine.
Exciting, especially for the snow-covered terrain. Which prompts us to desire to achieve a group of distinctive images, where the soft snow that covers everything around us and parallel to the accumulations of white clouds scattered in space.
Even a photographer who does not want to endure the sting of the cold outside the house can find multiple areas to take distinctive pictures on a day like this by simply directing his camera from behind the window glass, and if there are snow threads hanging on the edges of the window - frozen water points that can be used to make a beautiful and distinctive frame for the cat .

As for the photographer who wants to benefit more from this atmosphere, he must be ready to go outside the house and run on the snow, and here he can spend a day. Snowy. It is wonderful according to the hobby that he usually practices in terms of skiing, skating, or even just walking and playing on the snow, so he must wear appropriate clothes, take the equipment for his hobby, and in addition to that, he can carry a small disc camera similar to the Kodak camera, which can be easily put inside the pocket and practice various Kinds of snow sports, without the camera getting hurt... Here with running, skiing or downhill he can get many good pictures.

The first thing that should be taken into account in photographs on the snow is the background ... With the presence of small irregular hills behind the subject, the center of the image can be lost, and the main objective of it must be taken into account the element of lighting

Taking into account the photographer’s investigation of the background affairs from different points of view, the backlight will add a luster to the snow that improves the whole scene. It is enough to make sure here that the sun does not shine directly on the camera, and the presence of the subject on a slope higher than the photographer allows us to use the sky as a wonderful background for the image, especially If the day is marked by a radiant sun and a blue sky.

Preserving taking pictures of people during their movement or their preoccupation with doing something is self-evident and recommended in snow photos, as it is not logical to ask a person to stand still to be photographed in the middle of the snow because the person himself desires continuous movement on the snow to obtain the required warmth, except that seeing someone standing Rigid on the snow in a particular image, this image loses its importance and distances it from reality, and on this basis we find that the disc camera can take a series of snapshots of the subject during its movement, and in a snapshot every second if we want to do so.

Pictures close to the subject are undoubtedly the best in this field, and if we touched on warming the subject, this does not mean neglecting the need to warm the photographer himself. Here we return to the disc camera from Kodak to say that its supervisors, led by George Eastman, have always been keen, with all their productions of cameras, the possibility Using the camera before the photographer while wearing his gloves, and this matter shows its positive results during filming in very cold weather, as we will see.
As we follow the movement of our colleagues on a snowy trip, it may sometimes be between trees and fields or even in special areas for skiing. We must remain alert to the rare shots that pass quickly in front of us. It may be the movement of some creatures that launch in front of us - a deer, for example - or even the movements of falling or successful jumps. For athletes practicing skiing - these movements can be easily frozen with a camera equipped with a disc-kodacalar (HR) film, at a speed of 200 aza. After shots like this - the skier's fall or jumps - we can get closer to him in the next moment, to get another picture that clearly shows expressions of pride or Sadness on his face.
And taking pictures of others on a snowy trip, which may last for a whole day, and the photographer himself must have a role in it when he reviews these pictures in the future ... Here he has to lend the camera to any of his colleagues, given that it is easy to use and it is possible to rely on young people to take some pictures from during it, and asking them to photograph him during his activity as well.
According to a minimum of the aforementioned instructions, which he followed himself.
Thus, the photographer, with a film or a set of films, covered a full day's activities on the snow, including his own activity -