first snow

Woke this morning to the first snow of the year. It's still coming down actually. Forecast is for 4-6", but if it doesn't slow down it's going to be more than that.

I opened the blinds in the office to see what the conditions were @ 0630. It was snowing very lightly and we had about 2" accumulated at that time. Since I have the NEX-5N and it has this really neat feature called Hand Held Twilight (HHT) I figured I'd give it a try.

HHT takes 6 frames and combines them into one shot. This allows for hand held shots at faster shutter speeds than would normally be possible. Basically it's like doing an in camera multiple exposure that generates a jpg file. That's the only drawback- no can do in RAW. The results are pretty amazing though, and it will come in very handy for those times when I don't have a tripod with me.

The following shots will show you the out-of-camera (OOC) jpg that HHT generated, followed by the shot opened in PS and tweaked for levels and to reduce the vignette effect. All shots were shot hand held at waist level using the LCD to frame the shot. All shots @ ISO 6400 and shutter speeds between 1/15 and 1/25 second.

Oh yeah, it was pretty damn dark @ 0630, in case you were wondering. I know some folks never see that time of the morning short of a natural disaster. ;)

As usual, clickee piccie for larger view.

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