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Winter wonderlands
Demiray Oral visits The Roaches in the Peak District to take on the difficult shooting conditions of the season
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Understanding weather conditions and knowing how to make use of the available forecasting data available through various apps and websites nowadays is crucial in landscape photography. I consider this research and planning to be one third of the entire process in making an image.
Some scenes do not coincide with special conditions very often; a snowcovered vista during a fire sky in the morning is a good example. Colourful skies usually occur when there is a good percentage of cloud at high levels (over 70%) as the sun rises or sets. There also needs to be far fewer medium- and low-level clouds (less than 30% in those areas). Clearoutside is a good app to use, giving these percentages by the hour, by the day, or by location.