controlling exposure of snow

On 2008-03-21 06:07:11 -0700, CIVILian said:

hey guys...
I been to niagara falls recently....it was awesome trip...but the area
was full of snow. I took plenty of snaps, majority of them having
snow. But i saw that all snaps wer over-exposed due to excessive
reflection of light from snow. Because of that other objects in the
photo wer dark or under-exposed.
I had PS camera that time (olympus)

cud someone pls gimme some tips on how to avoid such things in the
future
thnx


I would use an incident light meter to measure the light falling onto
the main subject and manually set my camera's exposure for that.
However, you do not have an incident light meter, so the easiest thing
to do is to adjust the exposure and use the LCD after the picture is
taken to see if the exposure was correct. Throw out the bad ones.
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On Mar 22, 2:32 am, Bert Hyman wrote:


Maybe that's exactly what he meant: correctly exposed snow.

That doesn't help... Snow is a fairly bright white, iirc... (O:

For the past couple of weeks, I'd have said that grey is the correct
color for snow. We got a fresh 8" this weekend which reminded me of
what it's supposed to look like :-)

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On Mar 22, 2:32 am, Bert Hyman wrote:


Maybe that's exactly what he meant: correctly exposed snow.

That doesn't help... Snow is a fairly bright white, iirc... (O:

For the past couple of weeks, I'd have said that grey is the correct
color for snow. We got a fresh 8" this weekend which reminded me of
what it's supposed to look like :-)

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Bert Hyman | St. Paul, MN |

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