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Jan 14, 2019 18:49:40   #
davidrb Loc: Half way there on the 45th Parallel
 
gofast wrote:
I was at the dog park, it was bright overcast-great for not too bright, contrasty pics. I was using P mode on a T3i, 75-300 lens, usual skylight filter, ISO 200. The camera pretty much was running 1/800 almost wide open.

The pics look greyish. Certainly not white. The dogs are in good focus. What went wrong?


What did you do wrong? You asked the camera to do something, it did it, and then you did not like the results. Cameras know nothing about what needs to be done when shooting in snow, but you let it run your shoot? What did you do wrong?

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Jan 14, 2019 20:19:07   #
nikonbrain Loc: Crystal River Florida
 
CPR wrote:
When seeing problems in a shot I like to take it into Photoshop and see what changes can fix the problem. That gives a good idea of the problem.

In this shot just raising the temperature (the Light in Kelvin) fixes the grey.(Or on this laptop screen - fixes the blue.....)
Contrast changes would take out the way the tracks in the snow stand out.
I could set White Balance to the snow or use one of the other techniques mentioned.


To much color cast now from warming , better off using levels in Photoshop picking white point on the snow ,with eye dropper wa,la....

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Jan 20, 2019 23:15:00   #
uhaas2009
 
it call's the zone system from Adam Amsel.....the camera read's snow as 18% gray and the dogs are under exposed. You may open up 2-4 stops, try till it's right.

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Jan 22, 2019 15:42:25   #
DanielB Loc: San Diego, Ca
 
pesfls wrote:
Your meter is being overwhelmed by all the snow and trying to turn it to 18% gray. If you go manual and meter just the snow and the open up by about two stops it’ll then turn white.



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