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 Winter photography doesn't have to be an unpleasant experience as the title suggests.  As a matter-of-fact, winter provides an excellent time to get out of the house and do some digital photography. The first step, of course, is convincing yourself to go outside. The second step is finding your subjects. The final step is keeping yourself and your equipment comfortable.

 First Step - Be prepared. If you don't already have the clothing discussed later in this article, go out now and purchase them.  You may also need to purchase extra batteries for your camera or look at buying a remote battery pack you can carry next to your body.  Connect it to your camera with a dedicated cable and you are set for a day of shooting.  

Second Step -  Winter hosts a wealth of subject matter. Many of the same places you visit in the other three seasons are also appealing in the winter. Shooting a sunrise with a frosty mist in the air or a sunset during a light snowfall create dramatic photos.  Some ideas are try shooting evergreens branches bending under the weight of snow, a red barn surrounded with snow or hoarfrost gathered on bare tree limbs.  If your area has waterfalls, try shooting a frozen waterfall.  Another nice shot is frost-laden red berries hanging on a branch framed against a blue sky. For side-lit subjects, look for early morning or late day shadows from a split rail fence or a wind-sculpted snowdrift.  Because of the white snow, you run the risk of underexposing images.  Prevent this by adding 1.5 to 2 stops of light to your TTL (Through The Lens) metered exposure. 

If you shoot multiple pictures in the same light on an automatic exposure mode, add 1.5 to 2 stops of light by using your digital camera's exposure compensation feature.  If you shoot in manual mode, add light by either using a slower shutter speed or a smaller f-stop number.     Another way to properly expose pictures is by metering off of a gray card positioned in the same light as your subject. With the gray card filling your viewfinder, take your exposure reading and set your shutter speed and/or aperture to these values.   Plan your shots.  Look for bold bright colors to offset the monotone white of snow.  Use a slow sensor speed, such as ISO 100, thereby maintaining fine grain detail and color saturation.  If you shoot under cloudy conditions, use a white balance setting of cloudy and offset the bluish cast caused by the high color temperature of the light.

Third Step -  You won't enjoy your digital photography outing if you are uncomfortable. Because at times you stationary and at other times trudging through the snow, you have to dress in layers.  Layering allows you to take off clothes when you start to get warm and put them back on as you cool off.  Wick away moisture from your skin by dress in polypropylene undergarments. You still have the mobility and will retain body heat, but you lessen the clammy feeling from sweat.  As far as the outer layers, dress in a breathable fabric that also stops the wind from penetrating, such as Gore-Tex, Polartec or Thermax.  Wear two layers of socks on your feet. The pair touching your feet should be polypropylene and your footwear should be of a type having removable felt liners.  Wear a stocking cap or a warm hat with earflaps under your parka hood so you don't lose body heat through your head. Hand ware is always a problem when shooting in the winter. 

Solve this problem by wearing a light set of gloves under your heavy mitts. This way when you take off your mitts to adjust your camera controls or to take a picture, your hands will not freeze. If you're using a metal tripod, cover the legs with foam pipe insulation available from your home improvement store.  Today's cameras and lenses should operate down to 10 degrees Fahrenheit and colder if you keep them moderately warm. Keep your camera under your parka when not shooting.  Dry snow usually isn't a problem, but the heavy wet stuff can be. Place your digital camera in a large freezer bag. 

Cut a hole for the front of your lens to stick out and secure with a rubber band. Add a lens hood to keep the snow off of the front element of your lens.  When finished shooting for the day, place your camera in your camera bag, zip it tight and let it warm up slowly so that condensation will not form.  Moisture is the death of your digital camera if moisture collected inside and you turn it on.  Carry spare batteries. We all know that digital cameras are power hogs anyway and the cold takes power out of your batteries.  Have enough batteries with you so you can rotate them when they get low.  Keep spare batteries close to your warm body and they will revive so you can keep using them.

Closing -  Snow shots provide some stunning nature and landscape opportunities. If you dress properly and keep your self and digital photography equipment warm, winter photography can be enjoyable.  So while other photographers have stowed their equipment until spring, get out and shoot. You will not be disappointed. Happy shooting!

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Xsi Rebel - Good Camera Good Price

I am a professional shooter who has this camera to use for fun and travel will be mad if I damaged my high end $ $ $ body. (Like skiing) Any form of love that camera so far. I have had the problems I read about auto focus or image quality. However, you can not take this camera out of the box and get the best pictures you can take. going to be okay, but you need to take the time and set up your camera. Read the book if you know what you're doing. I have the camera kit with 18-55 IS lens and that's fine. The camera takes much better photos with my 35-350 lens 72mm L on it, like any camera, do not spend their money on the glass body.

If you want a good camera for the price of this is the one for you. If you have older EOS their old lenses will work with the new camera. I also use my 430EZ flash is, from my EOS A2 film camera, which is the way that power in the automatic mode (since there is a flash E-TTL TTL only), but manual work if put to inside i use 1 / 16 or 1 / 32 (up to 10-15 feet high works) out side i put it to full power I can light up a subject from 100 feet away! (That's good for that)

If an EOS has been used before this works more or less the same. even my old film EOS to it, the basic functions of pre-MID are the same.

CARE about you, but online. Do not buy from a company that does not have a dose of good reviews (not yet reviewed, and read the bad as well.) Personally I will not buy a photo outside 17St New York, the nightmare stories of many. I try to buy it from Amazon directly and make a lot of reading review if my item is supplied by anyone other than themselves. Spend a few $ $ extra to make sure you can send them back to their trouble. you get what you pay for.

XSi Rebel - Great First DSLR

Prior to this camera I have used a Powershot A30(?) and a cheap Kodak P&S. I was always fustrated with the quality of pictures I got. I think some of that has to do with the fact that I never learned proper technique for taking pictures. However, even when using the Auto or scene modes on the XSi Rebel, the quality is outstanding and the ease of taking pictures is great. It is actually fun to take pictures with this camera.

One of the biggest concerns we had with getting a new camera was its ability to take quality pictures of our children who hardly ever sit still. I do still take some bad shots given my lack of knowledge in picture taking, but I'm able to get a lot of good shots as well. When set to Continuous shooting mode, the camera is very quick. Even when set to single-shot mode, the ability to get a number of pictures in a short amount of time is still fast - way faster than our P&S cameras. Also, we can actually take decent pictures of our children inside the house without the use of the flash and the picture quality is still excellent (to my perspective).

One of the nice things about this camera is it's ability to take pictures in RAW format (when using manual modes) and then being able to modify the pictures on the computer afterward using Canon's supplied software. The software is very handy and provides some nice features.

I can't say enough good things about this camera. It was well worth the price we paid and I have no regrets whatsoever.

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Opteka EF-600 DG Super EO-TTL II Speed Blitz Flash seems to get good reviews....good budget choice?

Yes, I realize the 430EX is the Gold Standard here, but the Amazon reviews are encouraging:
http://www.amazon.com/Opteka-EF-600-EO-TTL-Digital-Camera/dp/B001GD3Z02/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=photo&qid=1264477909&sr=1-1

At 99 bucks, it seems to have the same functionality as the 430EX ('cept it seems, by reports, to have issues as a slave flash, which I wouldnt need it for)
Point is, for the budget minded fella who doesnt shudder at the thought of non OEM eqpt in his bag, ;-D, is this flash for real? Again, the reviews dont seem to harsh. 99 bucks is quite inexpensive. Anyone experienced with this flash?

Even for an off brand, Opteka would not be my first choice. Trouble is, there are so many units being sold under multiple names now... hard to tell what else it might be called.

I'd try it... for less than half the cost of a 430, it would be worth it. Another one that is probably the same flash with a different name is the Nissin Di622.

Another one to look at would be a Vivitar DF-383, comes in at $130.

Of course there is the Metz 36 for Canon E-TTL at $100 also. Tilt only, manual zoom, but good stuff. Metz is not an "off brand" by any means. Their model 48 AF-1 (about $225) out 430EX's the 430EX.

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This month, hundreds of photographers around the world will be descending on stadiums in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban and other spots around South Africa to cover the month-long sports story that is the World Cup. For the first time in its history, the tournament is taking place on the African continent, and photographers will have to adjust to covering the events in wintertime.

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