Who skis with a tripod and backpack?
Turtle neck ski shirts do not have pockets. Falling on a notebook would not feel like much fun.
Taking light readings off palms makes the assumption that everyone has the same skin color as back in the TV days of Leave it to Beaver and Andy Griffiths; and even then there were those with deeper tans. Makes no difference, a midpoint reading isn't likely to give you an accurate estimate of bright snow tonality and sparkle itself, unless you have a lot of practice with that very scenario. Gray cards, if you can find a decent one, can be helpful in moderate contrast color scenes, because color film saturation is based on a midpoint. But differentiating life and sparkle versus general highlights in fresh snow or gleaming ice using b&w film can vary quite a bit from midpoint depending on circumstances. In Zone lingo, if mid gray is Zone V, those highlight gradations might be anywhere from Z 7 to Z12 or more, hardly something you want to guess about. Open sun can pose a much greater contrast range than the soft light of falling snow. And what looks OK on the web might look as flat as a soggy pancake as an enlargement in print.
What if you're wearing gloves?
Who skis with a tripod and backpack?
A backpack for lenses and film, maybe. Tripod rarely, but never a gray card. That is what a palm or incident meter is for. It is called photographing while skiing not carrying a photo studio around, which as it may dawn on you now; is not done when skiing or snowboarding.
It's safer to use a point-and-shoot with a built in meter when you're skiing.
First time I ever cross-country skied I had an 85 lb pack on with 8x10 camera gear in it. The second time, a month later, I took a 4x5 Sinar and did overnight snow camping. Kinda like being a runaway truck on the downhills, though. I was accompanied by my nephew, who was not only an expert skier, but worked in backcounty ski rescue some of the season. I found out soon that snowshoes work way better for me. It's lot easier to closely approach an interesting rock or tree on snowshoes, and to tamp down a suitable snow platform for the tripod, generally my bigger Ries wooden one, ideal for snow conditions.
But don't go around saying it can't be done on skis. Anyone who knows even a little bit about history of mountain and arctic photography knows better than that. And incident meters? That refers to incidental random luck with a snow shot once in awhile. If you want predictable spot-on results every time, use a spot meter instead.
And palms have nothing to do with snow photography, especially when wearing mitts. Perhaps you're confusing this with your SoCal palm trees along the beach, or maybe with the Central Valley definition of palm, well below snow-line, which only pertains to green, where some developer greases the palm of a local administrator with greenbacks. Well, that no doubt occurs in SoCal too. Still, no relation to snow photography.
He needs a pack mule.
That’s really useful. Thankyou. It’s started snowing here in london this evening so I may yet get to practice before I head off!
He needs a pack mule.
It does feel like the gray day it looks to be.
Well AEK can be as stubborn as one ...
But it could also have looked more like this...
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which reflects the reality of that day?!
Who knows? I wasn't there at the time...but have seen both light conditions before...
and it then depends on what the photographer was trying to say, which in this case is that some idiotse ski with packs and tripods where other fear to tread..
Forget bracketing.
Even more reason to bracket. But again, the OP hasn't told us what he's shooting.
Bracketing is only to be avoided if one lacks curiosity about the variety in results one can achieve by choosing to make small to moderate changes in exposure - including with slide film.
It has a related cost - in film and processing and time - but it also offers benefits, when used intentionally.
A digital example, where a "properly" exposed frame was "blah"
Who skis with a tripod and backpack?
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