Cold Weather Photography

Why Your Cold-Weather Gear Is Just as Important as Your Camera Gear
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Why Your Cold-Weather Gear Is Just as Important as Your Camera Gear

There’s a version of me from a few years back who showed up to a winter sunrise shoot in a hoodie and running shoes. I lasted about 40 minutes before my hands locked up and I was speed-walking back to my car with maybe a dozen frames worth keeping. That was an expensive lesson, not in money lost but in light lost. Golden hour doesn’t wait for you to warm up.

Cold-Weather Camera Survival: A Finnish Photographer's 3-Step System That Actually Works
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Cold-Weather Camera Survival: A Finnish Photographer's 3-Step System That Actually Works

I live in Denver, which means I’m not exactly shooting in Finnish tundra conditions. But Colorado winters are no joke either, and I’ve had my share of moments where a camera started acting weird mid-shoot because I yanked it out of a warm car into 10-degree air. Fogged lenses, sluggish shutters, batteries that dropped from 80% to dead in twenty minutes. If you’ve shot in serious cold, you know the specific kind of dread that comes with watching your camera struggle.