Friday, April 3, 2009

White Christmas



Camera: Nikon D200
Lens: Nikon 18-70
f/8 at 1.3s
ISO 100
Manfrotto 055

Speaking of snow… Last December I took this shot at Vancouver City Hall. It was snowing and I wanted to capture it in a shot. To capture the building I determined an exposure detailed above. To capture the falling snow popped a flash during the exposure.

The most difficult part was keeping my camera gear dry. I don’t have a camera raincoat so a plastic bag was used to cover it. For extra protection I had taped a gulf umbrella to a monopod which I held between my knees leaving my hands free to operate my tripod mounted camera and my hand-held flash.

I feel I accomplished what I set out to do. However, next time I would like to do a longer time exposure to capture car light trails as well as the falling snow.

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