PR for People Monthly DECEMBER 2016 | Page 36

Other things you need to think about:

• Light is super-reflective off of snow. Always use a good lens shade or have someone help you shade your lens when you’re shooting into the sun. Or, make sure you stand in a shady spot.

• Use a neutral density filter to cut down on exposures

• Keep your ISO settings low (100). This gives you enough latitude to explore various other aperture and shutter speed settings.

• Try to shoot on MANUAL because it gives you better control of exposures

• Use the camera’s built-in meter and try to UNDEREXPOSE by two-thirds of a stop or so to improve color saturation.

• If you’re trying to shoot one person, set your meter for CENTER SPOT.

• If you’re just capturing an overall scene, set it more MULTIPLE SPOT measurement.

• Don’t forget to document the town as well as the slopes. Evening is a great time for making these kinds of images.

In order to capture action, especially if someone is skiing right past you, try to pan the camera in the direction of the action and be sure to “follow through” – releasing the shutter in the middle of the panning action. This technique will yield sharper images. You should have your camera set at a fast shutter speed, say 1/200th of a second or faster. Here is an example:

I set up the camera

and my daughter

snapped this image of

me a couple of years

ago.

Here is a stand of

pines in Steamboat,

Colorado

Telluride, CO, from the slopes

So, if you want to

make good skiing

images, concentrate

on taking pictures

not on skiing.

Leave the actual

skiing for when

you’re not carrying

a camera.