Wintertime near Ulm, Germany
After quite some years where you would have to drive to the Alps to find snow, this year it's snowing quite a bit even at lower elevations. Since Covid-19 is still preventing us from traveling, a nice opportunity to take pictures just around the corner.
I prefer to take pictures when it's still snowing. For one thing, it gives the pictures a special mood, and for another, it avoids too many footprints distracting from the main subject.
These minimalistic pictures of trees I took just a few minutes from my home. Taking pictures in the snow is a little bit tricky. The camera's light meter will try to expose for an average gray what is definitely not what you want. So you need to overexpose for around one stop to get the right brightness. For high-key shots like this one, you'll need to go even a bit higher. Make sure you don't burn out the bright areas of the photo, though. Shooting while it's still snowing helps here as well as you usually don't have too much contrast.
What works for trees works for other subjects as well. However, I didn't find the rather graphic post-processing of the trees appropriate here. By the way: Have you recognized the tower? If not, take a look here.
But taking pictures during a snow shower is not the only thing you can do. Sometimes it's worthwhile to walk around with open eyes searching for details. Those two pictures are showing ice on small puddles.
