Seven Tips and Ideas for Better Winter Landscape Photography

It may be absolutely freezing where you are right now, but that doesn't mean it's not a great time get out and shoot some photos. This great video will give you seven helpful tips and ideas for better winter landscape images.

Coming to you from Nigel Danson, this is a good video to watch if you're thinking of heading out into the snow and cold to shoot a bit. Snow and ice can be a great way to achieve a different look in your shots or to really get abstract. If you do head outdoors and spend a while there, be careful bringing your gear back inside. Moving from cold, dry air to warm, humid air makes conditions ideal for condensation to form on and in your camera and lenses, which is never a good situation. To prevent this, put all your gear inside a zippered camera bag or seal it inside a plastic bag before you bring it back inside, then let it sit until it reaches room temperature again. Doing this should be sufficient to protect your camera and lenses from moisture damage due to condensation. Now, bundle up and go out to shoot some of the beautiful scenery!

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Alex Cooke is a Cleveland-based portrait, events, and landscape photographer. He holds an M.S. in Applied Mathematics and a doctorate in Music Composition. He is also an avid equestrian.

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Is it me or is nearly every fstoppers article that shows up in my feed a link to a YouTube video?

He is still right, though and I looks the same to me. And "It's you." is not a very polite answer IMHO. When you take a look at the main page out of the latest 20 articles o FStoppers, only 3 are not a video.

I often read articles when I'm somewhere where I can't play the video (e.g. no headphones, bad connection). And the small article with the videos often does not contain a lot of useful information about the video content itself.

But I have to say: Knowing that there is a category "Originals" with original FStopper articles is interesting to know and the videos you post are interesting (when I have the time to watch them).

I would just love to have a bit more details about the video in the article. For sure not the whole content but a bit more to know if it's worth watching the video for me personally or not.

Just my humble opinion :) Keep up the good work guys! :)

I’m not sure why you found my answer impolite; I certainly didn’t mean anything by it and it was simply an answer to his question along with a relevant link.

Ooo! How do you like it so far? I was literally just reading about it a half-hour ago. Beautiful sky!

Stunning camera - I am thinking of getting one for videos. May need a trip back to the US to get a good deal!

It's so funny you mentioned it; I'm writing the gear awards for 2017 right now, and that's the winner of the compact category. I had the original RX100 and absolutely loved it; I'm sure after four iterations, it's even more spectacular. I just went back five years in Lightroom to look at the shots I got out of it and I'm still amazed.

I like the balance of the warm and cool! I actually just did a similar shot with a lens I'm reviewing. But yes, that's an impressively sharp/low-noise shot for a compact camera at ISO 6400.

$638 might be the deal of the year! I'm pretty jealous right now haha. Congrats on an awesome find. :)

That's fantastic Bob!! Keep up the hard work <3

Love this, winter is so beautiful to capture but can turn boring quickly so these are great