Braving the cold
I bundled up to take pictures of Chicago's Polar Vortex only to realize my nikon has a very slow reaction when it's negative 50 degrees. This was take...
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I bundled up to take pictures of Chicago's Polar Vortex only to realize my nikon has a very slow reaction when it's negative 50 degrees. This was taken with my phone and edited with the photo editor pro app on my phone
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Location
I took this picture in Chicago about a block away from my house.Time
It was early afternoon when I took this picture.I remember, because it was the coldest week of the year. I was trying to wait for the temperature to go up a little bit before heading out.Lighting
This was taken in natural light, but adjusted and filtered in post editing.Equipment
I had bought myself a coolpix nikon b500 this winter and haven't had many opportunities to use it, because of work and weather conditions. We had record breaking low temperatures in Chicago the day I took this picture. I told myself that I had to get to Lake Michigan, because photo opportunities like that don't come around often. It was so cold that I only made it a block away from my house (not close at all to the lake). I decided to just a snap a picture of myself as proof of trying to brave the cold and head back home. That's when I noticed that my nikon would barely turn on, because it was negative 50 degrees. Once I finally got it to turn on, I realized that there was a delayed reaction when trying to capture. At this point I was frozen solid, so I pulled out my Samsung Galaxy S9 and captured this image with my phone.Inspiration
Pictures with hoods seem to be pretty popular right now and have been for a while. I usually don't have my hood up, but because of the weather I did that day. I was inspired by my fur hood and I wanted to try and get a different angle/perspective than most of the hood pictures that I have seen. Most seem to be taken straight on.Editing
I added a black and white filter to make it seem a little more dramatic. Then I adjusted the contrast, light, highlights, and shadows to my liking.In my camera bag
I recently just started using a camera bag, so I usually just have my nikon b500 (my only camera), extra batteries, and a lens cloth in there.Feedback
If you're using a phone to take a picture of yourself or someone else in a hood, the lighting will change dramatically depending on the angle of the camera. Be mindful of that and move your camera around. Always take as many as time allows no matter what your subject is! Because I'm self taught and not technical at all, I try to find an interesting perspective. When taking a picture that has been done before, like a woman in a fur hood or an iconic skyline push yourself to take the picture no one else has taken. For me, I know that I will never have the best technically shot or best edited picture, but I can do my best to make my subject as interesting as possible.
