As a lifelong Michigander, I’ve taken my fair share of snowy photographs. But the one trick that I use to make snow pop in all my photos is actually the easiest one to do, whether you are using a 100MP mirrorless camera or a smartphone: Find a dark colored background.
I find falling snow nothing short of magic – enough so that I’ve intentionally scheduled portrait shoots for when snow is expected to be falling. I use a number of different techniques to get the snowflakes to really pop in my photos, from a wide aperture to turn snow into bokeh to even dragging out off-camera lights for extra pop.
