I shoot on snow a lot with slide film. I usually use +1 EV compensation (from a program mode average reading) to get the snow decently white. If there's a lot of rocks in the scene, or if I don't want quite such a bright look I use +0.5 EV. The other technique is to spot meter off the snow and set +1.5 or +2.0 EV, depending on the look you want. Be careful though, it's easy to lose the hilights. To the photographer, everything just looks bright, but the angle between the slope and the sun causes a lot of variation and sometimes you have to be very careful not to blow out the hilights. I really like Velvia for snow - I haven't found a film that can match it. The microcontrast in the snow texture is amazing.
-scott On Thu, 2004-02-12 at 08:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > A co worker is heading for a > ski vacation in Europe this weekend and has a > bunch of > Velvia and Provia 400F. We were talking about metering for bright snow,which > methods,hand > held,gray cards,back of hand etc.One i thought of,and his camera can do it is work > with > EV. > He seems to want to shoot in a program mode of some sort and I dont use EV at > all,but i > said i would > check this for him. > If he uses the program mode and its bright snowy day,his camera will try to > undewrexpose > the snow.I > suggested using+1.5 or +1.7 EV and that should help. > > Did i send him the right way.? > > Myself i would do it manually with a hand held reading,but, you know kids these > days. :-) > > I'll fwd any response to his email. > Thanks in advance > > Dave > >
