The Day After Tomorrow - share your snow Armageddon shots

[tigger2]

Iain, trust you to lower the tone...

lol loving your work guys

[campbell]

Kenny, yes I did clear the roof before I went out.

Just didn't want to dump it in the drive which I had just cleared.

Yep, after a herculean effort from Alistair and a bit of chipping in by the neighbours, Joe le Taxi Skoda-maxi was freed from his icy tomb and made it to the main road. Where we removed several cubic metres of snow onto the only area the council seems prepared to grit.

Result.

[renmure]

Top of the road


Bottom of the garden


Looks like a Mazda under there

[r055]

on the way to the stables... which was before I had to do an emergency manoeuvre into a ditch because I was skidding towards a farmer in his pick up!

[gorrie]

The digger arrived in our part of the street about an hour ago & has worked it's magic !! I just need to clear that last couple of yards in the morning & we will be rockin'
Amazing to think that those car roofs have already had almost 2ft worth of snow cleared off them on Tuesday.

[IanD]

Not the best of pics by a long way but was on my iPhone, in the dark and walking at the time. But as it was the m74 I wasn't stopping to take a pic.

A number of us 'got off' the bus on the m74 near bothwell services as it had taken 7hrs to get there from Glasgow city centre, hadn't moved in about an hour and it was 10pm. Walked the last 7miles to Larkhall, the m74 and most of Hamilton being a combination of car park and non moving car queues - amazing and very surreal. Felt very much 'The Day after Tomorrow'

Walking south on m74 between bothwell services on-ramp and Raith interchange


Walking down off-ramp from m74 to Raith

[campbell]

Utterly incredible, Ian.

Remember, when I titled this thread, it was the best part of a week ago

[s29ttc]

Some random ones from today. Knowing nothing about photography I was informed I was in the wrong settings for taking pictures of the dog and that's why he is out of focus? Anyways see below.

[campbell]

Nice shots, Scot.

In terms of settings for the dug, two things to consider.

Most cameras focus on whatever is in the middle area of the frame. I note at least one of your shots has the dog right of frame, hence the background might be getting focused upon. Initially, just try to train the centre of the 'finder on what it is you want to be in focus. Some cameras have a focus lock - usually a "half-press" on the shutter button which will let you focus on a subject centre frame, half-press, then re-compose the pic for where you *really* want things and press all the way to take. Or just keep it centre and crop later on the computer

Second thing is shutter speed. If the dug is moving fast, you may get blur if the camera is using a "slow" shutter speed. Most modern digitals etc give little or no control over this, although if you have a "sport" mode, that'll bias the shutter to a faster speed. If the lighting is bright enough, this shouldn't be a problem. One thing to try is "panning", where again you try to keep the subject constant in the viewfinder frame, moving the camera in sync with it. Then it's the the background which blurs, rather than your subject. Tricky to master but worth trying because the results from this can be epic - really highlights your subject when you get it right.

Final point. Again, lots of auto cameras can tend to under-expose with snow, making your pics a bit dark. Think yours on here seem OK, but if this happens to you, the set your "EV" or exposure compensation to +1 stop - this forces the camera to let in slightly more light than it actually thinks it needs, which compensates for the brightness of the snow which initially forced it to allow less light in. IYSWIM !!

[s29ttc]

Brilliant advice. One point I would like to note is the dugs a nutter in the snow and he leaps extremely quickly, first time I've tried to proper photograph, I've only had the usual experience of the night out or special occasion pics therefore trying to anticipate when the dog leaps and where is almost a mystery. We tried for a bit but we had only 5 mins worth in the battery! Below are some Hollys dad took showing really how it should be done!

[campbell]

Aha, Scott, I think Dad In Law beat me to it!

Enjoy practising. It can be very cathartic.

[H8OAG]

Scott
Nice pics.......even the poor chap's snow frozen testicles were pin sharp.

[r055]

Scott
Nice pics.......even the poor chap's snow frozen testicles were pin sharp.

Yeah, truly the dogs bollocks

[Dominic]

A few of mine..

[Ferg]

cracking pics!