Outdoor Photography

February 2018 Outdoor Photography 51

Canon EOS M

with EF 17-40mm

lens at 20mm,

ISO 100, 1sec

at f/11, 0.6 hard

ND grad, tripod,

wireless remote

spot because the river and stream

created ideal leading lines, drawing

the eye towards the old farm.

When dealing with snow scenes

I tend to add between one and

two stops to the exposure to avoid

underexposure, but in the soft

pre-dawn light I only needed to

increase the exposure by two thirds

of a stop. I also added a 0.6 hard ND

grad fi lter for the sky. To maintain

a good depth of fi eld I chose f/11,

which also gave me a shutter speed

of one second – perfect for blurring

any water that was still moving in the

deeper, unfrozen sections.

The soft pink light only lasted a

few minutes but, even so, I left feeling

confi dent I had managed to capture a

little of the atmosphere that this wild

and beautiful place evokes.

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