I’m so excited to share Photographing Snow: 4 Steps to Success with you because these steps are all about composition!  My heart goes out to all our readers who are getting hit with snow!  Instead of rubbing it in with Photo-Recipes inspired by California or Texas sun, let’s talk about photo tips for snow.

Photo-Recipe-  Photographing Snow: 4 Steps to Success

Are you surrounded by snow and overcast clouds?  Do you feel like the white snow isn’t even a pretty white but more of a dirty white?  Do you long for days of sun to capture creative light in your photos?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, I’ve got a treat for you.  Here is what we can do when we feel surrounded by white and are stuck with “blah” looking snow photos.

If the Rule of Thirds ever helped creative composition, it certainly does in the snow. Your kids are playing outside, and you grab your camera to take a picture. But your picture feels pretty blah. Here’s a BLAH looking photo for you!  LOL!  What makes this photo feel blah?

The “blah-ness” comes from a number of things.  The snow doesn’t look so white anymore.  The clouds are hiding the sun, so your lighting looks bleak.  These are both things we can’t control, but there is one element we can.  Composition.

The lack of composition in the above photo makes me feel “blah”. Let’s take it apart. The kids are in the center, tons of white snow surrounding them and…random bench…tree…blah.  The problem, the photo’s story doesn’t draw our interest in.