Thanks for the tip, Bruce. It is much appreciated.
I'd forgotten that I had changed my settings over to JPEG while I was
taking snapshots during the Super Bowl gathering I went to last night.
I have a horrible habit of treating my camera like a point-and-shoot
sometimes, and being somewhat hurried by the chill in the air probably
contributed to my lack of diligence.
With any luck, the snow will still be around tomorrow and I can take
another shot at those images. This was actually my first attempt at
shooting in snow, so I was happy that any of them turned out at all.
Thanks again for the pointers!
-- Walt
On 2/7/2011 6:58 PM, Bruce Walker wrote:
Nice ones, Walt. I especially like barn-front (5426125455) and that
curious dog (5426727734).
Tech issue: in the doggy shot I'm seeing artifacts of the sort caused
by curves adjustments on 8-bit images; stuff like stair-step
transitions in all-white scenes where the pixels are up in the 240-254
range. Look at the snow behind the dog toward the top of the image.
And I wonder if your exposure was maybe a bit too hot in the barn
shot. Did you take a look at the histogram in PS when you were editing
that one? It's got a look I see in my own images when the whites have
clipped (too close to 255) and then vignetting is applied. You tend to
get a kind of dirty grey look in those areas.
Shooting stuff in snow is really tricky -- quite the balancing act.
This is one area where shooting raw *really* pays off, with more
dynamic range and headroom.
-bmw
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