Other than the obvious potential pitfalls of filming in snowy conditions, namely dropping £1000 plus worth of delicate gear into a snow drift or falling on your ass and smashing it, there a couple of tips and tricks you can take advantage of to get the most your gear on the hill.

You get up to shoot on that perfect sunny bluebird day, but you find the bright light on snow means that even with your ISO dropped and your aperture on its narrowest setting everything appears washed out and you can’t get any details in the snow itself.

One trick is to use a ND (neutral density) filter; these handy circles screw over the front of most lenses and block a proportion of the light coming through, this means you can get a bit more detail from the snow and other reflective surfaces and even open up your f-stop to get some of that soft focusing that we just talked about. Getting the hang of the jargon yet?

We touched upon it in the last piece in this series, but if you’re using a fish eye on your DSLR it’s even more important to get a smooth image whilst follow- cam-ing your buddy to make the most of that quality picture. Luckily, there are a whole host of steady cam rigs and handles to help smooth out your shaky hands. For an absolute master class in glassy smooth follow-cam action, check out Jon Moy’s edit of Sam Turnbull and Si Cudlipp in Mayrhofen’s park this spring.