Current conditions outside my house

[justiceischeap]

Couldn't really capture the cold though and am wondering how photogs capture falling snow.

[Scuba]

1. Looks like mid-June in Wisconsin.

[In_The_Wind]

5. Looks like my street right now.

Minus the pretty red bow.

[Major Nikon]

2. If you have a telephoto, zoom in on the light on the lampost

You'll want to use a relatively fast shutter speed to capture the snowflakes in flight. I'd try zooming in on the lamp with just the light itself and perhaps the bow in the frame with say a 135-180mm lens at around f/4 - f/8 with about a 1/250s shutter speed with ISO adjusted accordingly. Then make adjustments from there to get the effect you want. Remember that with snow you'll need to overexpose 2 stops or so, otherwise instead of white snow you get grey snow.

[justiceischeap]

3. Thanks! I'll have to practice that.

I tried using flash to freeze the motion but I just got a bunch of orbs.

[Blue_In_AK]

4. Wow!

It's been remarkably warm here for quite a while, currently 38 degrees and everything is melting. This has been such an upside-down winter for the whole country.

I sometimes use a flash to capture falling snow, especially at night. A fast shutter is the trick.

[regnaD kciN]

9. Tell me about it...

I finally decided to get a full complement of photography-appropriate winter gear, so that I could go out and shoot in the Cascades without freezing my gluteus maximus off. So, after dropping about $500 at R.E.I., what do we get? The warmest winter on record. Seriously, they still haven't been able to open the ski areas at Snoqualmie, which are usually operational by late November. And I had planned to go back up and shoot the fireworks at Leavenworth's Bavarian Icefest last weekend, but decided against it after checking out the webcams there and finding that they had no snow whatsoever.

Personally, I'm more concerned about what will happen this coming summer. Insufficient snowpack generally equals drought, even in the rainy PNW.

[ManiacJoe]

6. Probably the easiest way to capture falling snow is

to have the light coming from behind the camera. A flash can work well for this in the light you have pictured.
Try standing very near the light post.

[ohheckyeah]

7. Not a great photo but

I had the porch light on, a side spotlight at the end of the house, and a flash.

[liberal N proud]

8. Just a dusting?

Wait until it blows!