Step One: I want you to take a “blah” photo first so you can see your own creative progression as we work through the four steps. To take your “blah” photo, put your kids in the center, make sure they are small and almost swallowed up by the white snow.
Step Two: Take the same moment and simply off center the kids so they aren’t right in the middle but in the far right, bottom corner. Take a look at this next photo. By using the Rule of Thirds, I’ve made my “blah” photo look story-like. All of a sudden, this photo feels like more of a story than just a simple snapshot.
Thank you so much for thinking of us here in the northeast and not teasing us with photos of warm sunny photos or even beach photos. The first half of winter has been tough this year with some sort of snow precip every week. Here in southeastern Pennsylvania, we are ice covered. It is beautiful and I can’t wait for the sun to come out for it to become spectacular! I plan on email you a picture from this photo-recipe.
I love it, going to South Dakota next week and doing a family photo shoot there and it is snowing now so I am pretty sure there will be snow when I go!! This was perfect 😉
Thanks Me Ra
yeah! Glad this is helpful to you! We LOVE our East Coast readers and feel for how crazy your winter has been! Hang in there! I hope today and tomorrow warm your creative spirits, like hot coco on a snowy day!
xoxo,
m
I would LOVE to know how to get a shot of footprints in the snow! i was trying to get shot last week of some mountain lion prints while i was in WY and it was seemingly impossible because there was pretty much no contrast (cue counting crows song here) in white snow…a tiny bit of shadow. thoughts?? aside from spritzing some kool aid? 😀 they were sooooo awesome that i wanted to share the paw prints. you could even see the pads and claw marks!
cheers!
I love when you post photo recipes. We don’t live in the snow but we don’t live far from it either & the kids have been begging us to take them.
WHOOT WHOOT! East Coast in the house!! Hee hee.. *thinks* …East coast is in the house cuz its too snowy and cold outside!
Thank you Me Ra, love the snow-photo hints!
How do you get the buttery background while shooting with a 5.6 apperture? I thought the apperture needs to be much lower. Do you use a portrail lense. I have the Sony Alpha camera. Love it.