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Settings/PP for shooting in snow

pentaxian450
Posted 07/09/2011 - 21:32 Link
Snowy scenes also reflect a lot of UV light, especially in high mountain areas. Our eyes aren't too sensitive to UV light, but the sensor on your camera is, and that increases the blue hue you get on your pictures. Using a strong UV filter while taking the pictures will help in keeping the snow white.
Yves (another one of those crazy Canucks)
Anvh
Posted 07/09/2011 - 21:39 Link
The lens coating and the coating on the filter in front of the sensor blocks the high-end of the UV at least, that's the part a normal UV filter also blocks.
Seems to me a bit pointless to do that 3 times.
What might help is a Haze filter, that one also cuts out the lower ends of the UV light.
Stefan
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arno
Posted 07/09/2011 - 22:42 Link
i've actually played around with the exposure and brightness a bit and that seems to be working for me. aperture might be syncing the result automatically so the pic on the first page may no longer be too blue and the whole thread will cease to make sense

anyway - lots of helpful tips here and i will try to take them on board in future!

thanks
pentaxian450
Posted 08/09/2011 - 01:22 Link
Anvh wrote:
The lens coating and the coating on the filter in front of the sensor blocks the high-end of the UV at least, that's the part a normal UV filter also blocks.
Seems to me a bit pointless to do that 3 times.
What might help is a Haze filter, that one also cuts out the lower ends of the UV light.

Take my word. When you're high up, you definitely get a blue haze in the pictures that will go away with a strong UV filter. The filter on the camera sensor is attuned to the UV wavelength at ground level, not the UV wavelength you get at 8000 meters. Snow will also reflect more UV than normal, hence the bluish cast.
Yves (another one of those crazy Canucks)
Anvh
Posted 08/09/2011 - 07:00 Link
pentaxian450 wrote:
Take my word. When you're high up, you definitely get a blue haze in the pictures that will go away with a strong UV filter.

I believe you but strong UV filters are called Haze filters, they are even specially made for what you describe.
That bluish cast for example is called haze.
Stefan
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Edited by Anvh: 08/09/2011 - 07:01
Posted 08/09/2011 - 09:44 Link
Don wrote:
buy some thin wool ( real wool) gloves to wear as liners for your regular gloves/mitts.... bring your Kodak grey card with you when shopping for glove liners.... find a nice thin pair of wool glove liners that happen to match as closely as possible, your grey card..... when out in the snow, take a spot meter reading off your glove liner and set your color balance while you're at it.....



Hat's off, sir! Brilliant idea.
You will only prise my 43Ltd from my cold, dead hands...
bretti_kivi
Posted 08/09/2011 - 10:20 Link
I don't like wool, I prefer tech windproof fleece or thin leather. Riding gloves are great for camera users.

As far as the WB is concerned, I think - and this is from my experience in a shedload of snow last winter - that the K5 hits it 100% correct every single time. The K10 doesn't. Won't help you much, but still.

Bret
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