Top 5 Tips for Winter Photography

My latest post to the Outdoor Photographer Magazine blog, Top 5 Tips for Winter Photography, is now online. Don’t use the cold as an excuse—get out there this winter and make some great photographs! And don’t forget to help me get to the ultimate winter environment: please vote to send me to the North Pole, and spread the word—I need all the help I can get!

The image below was taken on a frigid morning in the Grand Tetons of Wyoming. A layer of inversion fog formed overnight, and everything it touched was frosted with ice. High clouds behind the mountains caught the rosy pink light of dawn. I ran around like a crazy person trying to find a composition that would work before the light faded!

"Winter Dawning" - Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming

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Ian Plant's photographs and instructional articles have appeared in a number of books, calendars, and magazines, including Outdoor Photographer and Popular Photography. Ian writes a regular blog column for Outdoor Photographer online, and he is the author of numerous instructional eBooks and digital processing tutorials. Ian leads several photo tours each year.

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1 Comment

Alexandra Bennett December 17, 2010 at 2:36 pm

Your post today made me laugh. When you said you “ran around like a crazy person trying to find a composition that would work before the light faded”, I could just picture myself doing that on many occasions. I think we artists are all a little crazy. But that’s part of what makes us special.