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Snow???
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According to the paper there could be snow tomorrow…. Would definitely necesitate an early morning rise and some photography to be done. Well for me anyways. haha
I shall be heading up the Knockmealdown mountains early in the morning and would love to see some snow. Any tips for shooting in the snow.
Dave.
Can be tricky if there’s a lot of it… too much white will throw off your exposure…
Use a ‘grey card’ in front of the lens and meter off that. When you take it away your meter reading should jump up, but change back to your ‘grey card reading and you should get white snow instead of grey
Pat
What if you don’t have a grey card? Would over exposing and trial and error do the job?
“Any tips for shooting in the snow”
Shoot raw and over expose your shots by half to a full stop or the snow will come out gray. Also set the white balance manually or the camera might give the snow a blue tint (if shooting raw you can change this later)
Look at the histogram. If there is allot of snow in the picture the histogram should lean to the right. Important thing is though that the histogram graph dips just before its goes off the right hand side. If it does not then you are over exposing. Turn on highlight warnings also and it will do a similar check
M
trailfox wrote:
What if you don’t have a grey card? Would over exposing and trial and error do the job?
Get one or make up one
PatIf you don’t have a gray card use the palm of your hand – it’s close enough to 18% gray (hadn’t got to that page yet Pat??). But, to solve all problems just do what Martin says.
What do you think Vera??
Alan.
lousyphoto wrote:
trailfox wrote:
What if you don’t have a grey card? Would over exposing and trial and error do the job?
Get one or make up one
PatHave spent years photographing in snowy mountains and on glaciers on trekking and mountaineering trips. Stick to my instructions above:-) One other thing is to use a polarizer preferably at 90 degrees to the sun if possible i found them great especially when shotting slide film. This will cut down on the reflections bouncing off the snow. Histogram and highlight warning are the way to go trust me, been there done that:-) The gray card is a good idea but i would take more note of the histogram and highlight warnings if it was me
M,
irishwonkafan wrote:
If you don’t have a gray card use the palm of your hand – it’s close enough to 18% gray (hadn’t got to that page yet Pat??). But, to solve all problems just do what Martin says.
What do you think Vera??
Alan.
It’s on the same page Alan-I was quoting our friend Bryan as I typed-
Couldn’t memorise all thatPat
Bloody weather forecast. I was up at half five this morning and nothing. :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil:
steelydan wrote:
I take it as your friend Bryan Peterson :lol: :lol: :lol:
The very man… great read though and plenty of tips
Pat
thanks martin, I’ve got hardly any snow here in Rathfriland :( Although it’s only started a few hours ago so maybe it might pick up!
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