Snow Experiments

Hi Cloe, it's great you are breaking out of your sports photo box and experimenting.

I find images involving snow so challenging, either the form & lighting on the snow needs to have interest, or if a backdrop to another subject that subject and composition need to be strong.

While I like your attempt (and encourage you to continue this thought) I think the images suffer from flat lighting (more so in the first).
I would also encourage you to search out subjects with a bit more interest to counter the bland background - Marius' earlier post 'Searching' is a good example of this.

I have so many minimal images of my own that I feel 'fail' due to this lack of balance, it's just a matter of finding a balance that suit you.

At the end of the day it's all about your own artistic direction and what appeals to you - if you are fully satisfied then you have met your goals.

Thanks for posting - would love to see what else you can come up with.

Hi Chloe! Good to see you posting. I'm inclined to agree with Alan. Minimalist images still need a "something", a something that captivated you, and which you can somehow convey to the viewer. There's almost no snow where I live, so I have zero experience with trying a minimalist snow image. I think the first image lacks an interesting enough subject - the stick is unremarkable, and the snow textures very subtle in the flat light,

I think that the stick in the second image might work as a subject if it were, say, smaller, near the left edge, and rotated almost 90 degrees, so it is almost vertical, but tilted clockwise 10-20 degrees.

The snow texture can be emphasised fairly easily in post, as I've done below.