Digital photography during winter

On many occasions during my time teaching digital photography I’ve had people say to me “oh, its winter, I can’t possibly take beautiful digital photos now.”

If you’ve said something like this about winter digital photography then just wait for this…

Did you know that digital photography during winter is one of the most fulfilling creative practices you can do? Digital photography is not just about summer; colour and bright sun shine….its much, much more than that. So here are some powerful digital photography tips for winter.

Firstly you can create some pretty sensational black and white digital photos during winter. If you live in a place that goes grey for the whole time winter is around, then consider this digital photography tip; maximise the absence of colour in your digital photography. You can create some very dramatic black and white digital photos of stormy skies, rain clouds; sheets of rain against darker objects making the rain look white in colour.

You can also try getting the most out of the blues, whites and blacks in your winter digital photography. Lets take for example a beautiful snow scene with a blue sky. You have all the softness of the gentle white snow blanketing your landscape or parkland. Along side this beautiful feeling you also have the stark black trunks of the trees, whether thick or thin. Then, to add to your digital photography experience, you may have the gentleness of an animal or the backdrop of a lake.

You see, what winter does for digital photography is feminise it. It takes away the masculine energy and replaces it with a quite, calm introverted feeling. Winter digital photography can offer you a soft light, which can provide beautifully filtered light in your daytime subjects.

When you partake in digital photography in the winter time the first thing you will notice is the light. Winter changes not only the physical temperature, but the temperature of light changes. There is less hard light and more bluish tones on your scene. It’s absolutely beautiful if, and only if, you maximise this to its full extent.

So just go and look. Look outside and notice how much beauty you see all around you. Look at the shades in your environment and see how much you can capture of this gentle bluish light. 

It’s really divine.

By Amy Renfrey - Digital Photography success