Shooting black and white in the snow

Ai Print said:

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Nice images!

Thanks for all the advice.

Here's the pick of the liter (my opinion) from my one roll of 120 T-MAX in my Zeis Ikonta 6X9.

This is "my tree" near Summit House restaurant. I just followed sunny 16 plus 2 stops for the red filter and 2 stops because I wanted white snow.



This one I used my Weston, it was a very shady area. So I took the Weston reading, used 1/25 for the shutter to try to get emphasis on the little cascade and I have now lost track of the aperture I used. I think I opened 3 stops from my Weston suggestion. No filter used in this frame.



On another mostly sunny afternoon I used a yellow filter to capture this little grove of aspen outside the condo. It took me several minutes to wade about 15 feet through the drifts to get the point of view that I was after. Again, I used sunny 16 and opened about 3 stops for the filter plus wanting white snow.




Thanks again for all the feedback.

jmccl@yahoo.com said:

This is "my tree" near Summit House restaurant. I just followed sunny 16 plus 2 stops for the red filter and 2 stops because I wanted white snow.

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jmccl@yahoo.com said:

On another mostly sunny afternoon I used a yellow filter to capture this little grove of aspen outside the condo. It took me several minutes to wade about 15 feet through the drifts to get the point of view that I was after. Again, I used sunny 16 and opened about 3 stops for the filter plus wanting white snow.

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Sounds like in both cases you overexposed by two stops? When using the Sunny 16 rule, you shouldn't also add another 2 stops to get white snow.

When you are using a reflective light meter and point it to something white, then you would add +2 to make the subject appear white.

When you are using the Sunny 16 rule, you already get the right exposure to make white things look white and do not want to add another 2 stops.

Agree with the above, I add two stops to a meter reading to avoid that horrible 'grey snow' off white look but seem to recall it would be different if just going with sunny sixteen in my head. The main thing to remember is that any meter is going to assume that you couldn't possibly want to be exposing for such a bright white reflection and will try to bring you down to 18% grey reference.

That said, living in Thailand for 20 years, the last time I shot snow was on holiday ten years ago. I did it a lot as a teen though.