filming outside in the snow

Lightfoot wrote on 2/23/2010, 6:30 AM

any tips on filming outside in the winter with snow on the ground? using Canon GL2. Just filming live action of sledding and snowball fights, all handheld shots.

Comments

TeetimeNC wrote on 2/23/2010, 6:51 AM

1. Watch out for the snowballs ;-)

2. The GL2 will try to make the snow mid-gray, so you need to over expose about a 1/3 or 1/2 stop, or set your manual exposure using a gray card.

Jerry

Richard Jones wrote on 2/23/2010, 7:18 AM

Spot on, TeeTime.

Richard

logiquem wrote on 2/23/2010, 7:56 AM

TeeTime is right.

Keep also a circular polarized filter in your pocket?

If you need close up on subjects think about bringing some kind of sunshades to avoid washed out skin tones (cause you have overexposed to get withe snow).

baysidebas wrote on 2/23/2010, 8:42 AM

Keeping it in the pocket is going to do a lot of good.... I suggest mounting it in front of the lens to cut glare from reflections.

If it's bright and sunny, you'll need reflectors for fill, or scrims to tone down the brightness range on your subject (this in case of close-ups) otherwise the brightness range will overwhelm the camera's capabilities.