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EricT
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Took a bunch of pics the last few days... not much salvageable though. Edit: (1) is all I could manage:
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derick and i went jumping today. i dam jumped!
there appears to be a demon head behind me in the second picture :zombie:
there appears to be a demon head behind me in the second picture :zombie:
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EricT
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Yeah... it does...
Also, if you notice it in that pic, there is a little snow/rock formation that I call "The Grim and Wintery Face of Abbath" which I point out to all visitors in the winter:
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i see it!
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EricT
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Funniest part is this is the land that Joseph Smith looked down upon and declared "The Zion". Fuck him, Abbath was looking down first.
skyrefuge
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Neil's Photo Tip: when taking pictures of snow, increase the exposure setting on your camera by +1 or even +2 (if the scene is mostly snow). If your camera has that capability, of course. Cameras see all the snow and think "this scene can't *possibly* be that white and bright, so I'm going to make all that white stuff look gray." So increasing the exposure time forces the camera to make the white stuff actually look white.
Or you could post-process, but that's more work, and doesn't look as good anyhow.
Or you could post-process, but that's more work, and doesn't look as good anyhow.
EricT
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I actually did have exposure up to about 0.7 I think (don't quote me on this, could of been higher or lower, I was busy waiting for my breakfast burrito just taking random pictures)... The picture was taken a little after 8am, and with that heavy cloud cover. Also the picture is facing the east so the sun hasn't quite reached over the mountains yet, so its going to give everything facing in that direction a much darker greyed look, as it does look darker and grey.
I'm going to the same place for dinner tonight, If I make it before the sun goes behind the mountains to the west, I'll snap another while the sun is facing it to show the huge difference that the time of day makes in this valley.
Next time I go for food that early, I shall try with the exposure more up around 1.7 and see what happens there.
I'm going to the same place for dinner tonight, If I make it before the sun goes behind the mountains to the west, I'll snap another while the sun is facing it to show the huge difference that the time of day makes in this valley.
Next time I go for food that early, I shall try with the exposure more up around 1.7 and see what happens there.
EricT
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Here, did a little quick test before I have to head off to work... Same direction, east (Don't mind the cars):
Here we are off my porch at 0 exp:
And 1.0:
And 2.0
Here we are off my porch at 0 exp:
And 1.0:
And 2.0
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derick and i went jumping today. i dam jumped!
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Hey, It's Q-Bert!!!
skyrefuge
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Yeah, that situation is a bit different, because you have the bright sky in it. That helps the camera get the exposure correct on its own, so that's why the 0-compensation one looks the best. That's how it probably looks to your eyes too, with the snow being significantly darker than the sky. If you look at the histogram of that one, there are a lot of pixels at or near max brightness (from the sky), whereas in the previous snow ones that didn't have bright sky, there is a whole empty area near the top of the histogram. So increasing the exposure on this scene just blows out the sky, but on the other ones, it increase the contrast without blowing out any highlights.
But yeah, even though it got the exposure right in this scene, it seems like it completely hosed the white balance.
Apparently that's another common difficulty when shooting snow, and a more difficult one to correct. I guess the overall lesson is, good snow photos are really hard, so just try different shit out (if you have the if inclination and manual dexterity to mess with camera settings in the cold), and maybe you'll get lucky from time to time!
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