[pure-silver] Re: shooting in snow
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- Date: Thu, 10 Feb 2011 19:55:49 -0700
Well don't be so sure a spot meter will work either. You have to remember that the spot meter is just going to give you an exposure as if it were 18% gray. A really dark building the meter will try to make 18% gray. Same with the snow. It's so reflective but that meter gives a reading as if the snow was 18% gray. That leads to lousy looking snow.
Now an in camera meter likely would have a way to evaluate and come up with a workable reading doing the compensating in the software. There was a time when it was just a couple of points of measure, but now most cameras will have at least 20+ if its a digital slr. If snow is the bulk of them, its comes out 18% gray most of the time.
For snow the best way I have found is to use either a gray card or if you are lucky use an ambient light meter that measures the light falling on the meter rather than light reflecting back to the meter as a spot would. If you get caught without a gray card, I have used the palm of my hand as the next best thing.
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Subject: [pure-silver] Re: shooting in snow
From: Don Sweet <
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Date: Thu, February 10, 2011 7:15 pm
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Could the snow be frozen by using a flash of the correct temperature?
Don Sweet
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Sent: Friday, February 11, 2011 6:12 AM
Subject: [pure-silver] Re: shooting in snow
On Feb 10, 2011, at 08:19, Robert Hall wrote:
'd like to shoot some buildings with the snow falling down, something I haven't done before. Does anyone have any general thoughts on shutter speeds or depth-of-field to get me started. I use a spot meter, so I shouldn't have any trouble getting a good exposure.
Thanks.
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John Bower, an Indiana Artisan
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Snow is white so a darkish background shows it better and it is moving pretty quickly so depending if you want to freeze it in mid flight or let it blur some you need to not have a real slow shutter speed.
Dennis
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