Keep these special techniques in mind to help improve your winter pictures. Don't be dismayed by the cloudy, lackluster skies that follow or precede a storm.
Overcast conditions add moodiness to scenes and provide a simple, attractive background.
Your film will be better able to record the full tonal range of landscapes or other scenes, and you will have recognizable detail from the darkest to the lightest parts of the print or slide. Gray skies can get a little tedious visually though, so consider buying a graduated color filter that will color the sky slightly but leave the foreground natural. Look for high vantage points that reduce the amount of sky in the scene, or tilt the camera down to concentrate on subjects in the foreground. Bright-colored subjects have heightened impact against a blank canvas of snow and they will add interest to your photographs.