Linda Art

Today I took some pictures of some real heavy snow scenes where i live (atleast for now) with drifts and major snow falling, and reviewed the pcitures I took, the drift scene just came out as a blur and the actual scenes of the snow everything looks kind of with a brownish hue or sepia, and compared it another snow scene that I took back in December in another area, which was much closer to the city, but the beginning of upstate NY, (rockland county) and it was the first snow, and the scenes were so much more sharper, with much more clarity and color...is it because of the time of year? the area? the kind of snow, (the first ones were snow mixed with ice) I'm confused because these new ones look like a boring brown sepia color and the others were so vibrant - I'm beginning to wonder if it is the area where i took them? or the time of year, or just the photographer (me) lol...the settings were the same and this was taken with a Nikkon Coolpix 12.0, but the first snow was not a major snowstorm like this one, and was taken about 3 months ago...right at the beginning of winter, and this area looks like the movie straight out of Fargo the movie....Any suggestions, plus it seems certain things came in like a bush with snow on it with a different color brown...more of a reddish brown, which is nice, but dont know why....I'm a rookie and starting to take pics everyday, but the snow scenes are getting kinda old, and so is the winter...but had to take these because of practice, practice, practice in any kind of weather. Thanks....

GPoyner Loc: North Dakota

No pictures

eurobird Loc: uk

Some pictures would be nice give us a show

lightchime Loc: Somewhere Over The Rainbow

The first thing to consider is that you shot with a different white balance. If this is the case, you have a great deal of company.

Bill Houghton Loc: New York area

You used the same camera, but I can bet a few things were different. Like the time of day, the density of snow fall, and how bright the sun was or wasn't in you this case. With out a down loadable sample it's hard to say. That size camera would be more sensitive to lighting conditions due to sensor size in the camera. But not seeing what you reference is.

Linda Art

Your right, I need to download some pics on here and in general, all I doing is shooting away, on this camera, but more on my other canon which has some beautiful snow scenes with covered bridges and waterfalls, they were taken near Vermont, about a month ago, sick on winter scenes anyway, they are everywhere, and everyone has one....on every camera, phone, etc....especially on the east coast, and northeast...thanks.

dalematt Loc: Goderich, Ontario, Canada

This is just a thought. I used to alpine (downhill) ski. I used to hate days that were overcast as the snow became "flat", that is, grey and shadowless, and difficult to see variations in the snow. I'm wondering if this is what happened to you. Photos would help.

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

The two things I keep reading about snow photography are: increase exposure by 1/2 stop or more; adjust WB in-camera or in post.

Fergus Loc: Westfield,IN

include photos and you'll receive a lot of help.

SHOOTR Loc: Hoosier State

Perhaps you are shooting into the sun. I just did this today as sun had not been up for long and shooting into sun. Just my observation, I am certainly no expert in this. Others may have different opinions. Other shots not into sun were fine, nice white snow, tinges of blue in the shade.

Fergus Loc: Westfield,IN

If you include photos the real pros and experienced members on this site will help you out.

Vlux

Shooting snow scenes with camera meters can be dicey. The meter tends to try to compensate for brightness and stop down -- to gray - one or two stops. The same is true of heavily back-lit subjects, if enough of the background is within the frame, as in beach scenes.

SHOOTR Loc: Hoosier State

Just did some with .7 stop over the meter reading. Look OK to me, others might not think so.

Vlux

The brightness of the scene will affect the meter reading. The higher the reflectivity of the scene, the more the meter will stop down. At play are the reflectivity of the scene and the intensity of the light. Dull snow on an overcast day will produce less reflectivity than will bright white snow on a sunny day.
Run some tests. Shoot a white board in bright sun, then in shade, then in even a darker setting. See what the meter does with the "white" in all three situations.

georgeretired Loc: Manitoba Canada

First apply got "snowed" out. Snow is beautiful when it first falls in spite the fact that media shows all the traffic problems it causes. Snow remains fresh for a while then starts to gather contaminates usually brought by the wind and the presence of Man and their machinery tends to either deteriorate the shot or in HDR can show some interesting shading.
Shoot in RAW so you can post adjust any pre-shot adjustments not made. Living in Manitoba Canada we have 6 months of snow and 6 months of mosquitoes.

snowmobiles going onto the river trail

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small 1941 vintage dam on the creek

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La Salle river/creek that leads into the park

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