rastokirn Loc: Maribor, Slovenia

This time I left my phone in pocket and photographed just with my new toy (OM-10). Yes, pics are sharper (and take more memory), but why is snow blue when the sun goes down (seen on the last two photos)? I tried Luminar and Aurora on the last picture, but was still not happy with results. Yes, Aurora and Luminar are also new!:-) Any hints?

Once a year young and adult teams get together under Peca mountain in Slovenia


to honor king Matjaz (Matthias Corvinus) and his queen Alencica


building snow castles and other monuments from snow and water


using whatever utensils they bring with.


Honored King Matjaz and Queen Alencica (went blue after sun was gone)


Using Aurora and Luminar hasn't brought me satisfaction :(

Steve_m Loc: Southern California

White balance?

jliane Loc: Washington state

Snow in shadows is blue

twowindsbear

The white snow reflects the color of the blue sky, the same way the shadow areas in the other pix are blue. You can adjust the white balance to make the snow white, but the sky will no longer be blue.

Longshadow Loc: Audubon, PA, United States

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

Over at FYC we have had several discussions about this very subject, and now are in the midst of a discussion about how we can/should respond to these issues
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-436618-1.html

Part of your surprise may come from the fact that these effects happen, but our brains sometimes edit what we are seeing, basically doing its own version of WB because we subconsciously know that colors are modified towards blue under shade and towards red close to sunrise/sunset.

Bultaco Loc: Aiken, SC

Great shots, open you shutter a couple stops, it works for me.

trc Loc: Logan, OH

Since the picture has already been taken, just do the WB selectively, say in PS, and that small challenge is solved. White snow and sky remains blue.

Best Regards,
Tom

rastokirn Loc: Maribor, Slovenia

[quote=rehess]Over at FYC we have had several discussions about this very subject, and now are in the midst of a discussion about how we can/should respond to these issues
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-436618-1.html

Well, thank you. This was not easy, it took me all evening (so much discussion in english, foreign language for me)! But I learned a lot, still didn't go deep in philosophy.

BTW What do words "SOOC, DR, EBTR, DOF information" mean?

rastokirn Loc: Maribor, Slovenia

Steve_m, jliane, twowindsbear, Bultaco, trc, ..., thank you all for replies. Have to find next opportunity, we don't have much snow here where I live. I really like a comment from Uuglypher, written on another thread "The sun-lit snow reflects the warm hues of the low sun, and the shadowed snow reflects the sky's color. Again... what's to fix?" Should I live with that?

rehess Loc: South Bend, Indiana, USA

I spent two weeks in Ljubljana when I was in grad school; your English is much better than my Slovenian could ever be.

SOOC = Straight Out Of Camera - using JPEG image created by your camera. You'll find lots of threads here creating more heat than light comparing SOOC to Post Processing raw files

DR = "Dynamic Range" - distance between darkest light and brightest light the sensor can capture at one time.

DOF = "Depth Of Field" - at any given f-stop, a certain range of distances will be in focus; DOF is the distance between the closest spot in focus and the farthest spot in focus. Back in the day, before autofocus, most lenses would have markings helping you to know what those distances are.

EBTR -= " Exposure Beyond The Right" - this is another one of those very controversial subjects, "more heat than light", like Canon vs Nikon. The idea, for those who do Post Processing, is to "over expose" {from the point of JPEG}, because noise is more of a problem in dark areas than in light areas; raw files have more DR than JPEG do, so adjusting back to the "correct" range is done in Post Processing. The advocates of this method, and the closely related, ETTR, do themselves no favor by their long explanations.
http://www.uglyhedgehog.com/t-433396-1.html

sailorsmom Loc: Souderton, PA

Beautiful photos, rastokirn, and I like the blue snow! Better than having it all white and washed-out looking! And how talented are the kids building these! Wow! So beautiful!