Cold//Snow Photo Gear?
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- mg33
Any of you photographers have anything in particular you always use or depend on when doing extensive photography in the snow or cold weather? I'm going on an awesome road trip up north to Michigan to snowboard with friends in a couple weekends. It's going to be cold constantly, probably 15 degrees or less every day. This is just about 20 mlles south of Lake Superior.
Any gear tips or things to consider?
- sadpanda0
I would pay attention to acclimating your lenses for whatever situation you're in. As in your lens fogging up and what not.
I would use a polarizing lens to get that blue in the sky to brighten up while keeping the whites white with detail.
- jaylarson0
Keep spare batteries inside your jacket to keep them warm. so they'll last longer.
After using yr camera outside, put it into a sealed plastic bag and let it warm up gradually so moisture doesn't accumulate on it. someone told me that having it in a plastic bag is enough, as long as it's sealed. But I'm a bit paranoid and would like to have my camera warm gradually. Once you get moisture on the internals of a lens, bacteria can grow and then you're fucked.
- sine0
don't eat yellow snow
- ********0
lens hood. there are dedicated cold environment hoods, though i haven´t seen one with active heating.
also, some dude wrote about strapping heat packs (for fishing, etc.) to his gear for sub zero outdoor action, but I don´t know if that´s actually any good.
- moniker0
You'll be snowboarding.
Leave the camera in the hotel and have fun.
- Projectile0
^ don't listen to him. If you're going for at least a week, it's nice to have one day (pretty much has to be clear skies or any photo will come out naff) where you take it easy and piss about with some silliness, build a ramp, or find one you can get good at and take some awesome pics.
also try yr best to make sure the background has sky in it.
- canuck0
get some gloves which allow you to use the camera controls still ;)
- mg330
Thanks for the tips. I've done the plastic bag one plenty of times here in Chicago.
There's snow. This is where I'm going: http://www.mtbohemia.com/
11 hour drive north from Chicago into the middle of nowhere in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It's often called the best backcountry skiing or snowboarding east of the Rockies.
- letterhead0
the biggest pain in the ass for me is moisture finding it's way onto the lens and freezing onto it. Now it's useless because, especially if it's really cold, the only way to rid of it is by force, or scraping. It's the same thing that happens to your goggles on a near or sub zero day.
- jaylarson0
- Ian Plant is a damn good landscape photographer:
https://www.google.c…jaylarson
- Ian Plant is a damn good landscape photographer:
