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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
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Posted: Tue Sep 25 22:38:25 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 26-Sep-84 19:58:41 EDT
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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)
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			Jim Leask
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