Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site wateng.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!wateng!jmleask From: jmleask@wateng.UUCP (Jim Leask) Newsgroups: net.rec.photo Subject: Snow Pictures Message-ID: <1481@wateng.UUCP> Date: Tue, 25-Sep-84 22:38:25 EDT Article-I.D.: wateng.1481 Posted: Tue Sep 25 22:38:25 1984 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 19:58:41 EDT Organization: U of Waterloo, Ontario Lines: 25 How do you expose for snow shots??!?? A lot of my shots from last year (I like to "play" in the snow) seemed to be underexposed. I usually opened up the aperture by about 1 to 1 1/2 stops to compensate (I thought) for the amount of white in the picture. However, I often was disappointed by the results since the snow had a dirty brown colour, and my main subject (a skier or the like) was dark. QUESTIONS: 1) how much should you compensate for snow shots in bright sunlight, slightly overcast, blizzards .....? 2) will any filters help improve the colour and exposure? 3) does film speed make much difference? (I often use 400ASA even in bright light since I use a zoom lens a lot and seem to have shaky hands) 4) how often does a photo lab mess around with prints, assuming that they have to compensate for snow shots when they really should just print normally 5) if a shot is OVERexposed, do you get a colour shift in the film which could cause colour problems like this? (the lab said they were overexposed, but from my limited knowledge of colour developing that doesn't make sense) ------------------ Jim Leask {alegra, utzoo, ...}!watmath!wateng!jmleask