Originally Posted by
North Light
Jean,
Snow is one of the things that causes problems with cameras metering, in fact scenes that are predominately very white of very black will cause problems.
Picture No. 2, Snowy landscape, the camera has underexposed this because of the essentially white scene, for scenes like this either set exposure compensation to "+1" or meter manually, overexpose by 1 to 2 stops.
The slight blue colour cast to me is not a problem as it emphasises the cold.
Photo's taken early morning, late afternoon in the snow will be "Warmer" than those taken at midday.
Pictures No. 1 and 3, the exposure here is not far off, the problem is that the range of bright too dark, fill-in flash on No.1 might have worked, although I think this is a good animal portrait, and would have lightened the dog's face in post processing with photoshop or similar. Photograph No. 3, the snow looks pretty good, the dog's face is underexposed, I'm not sure fill-in flash would have worked here, but I'm no expert with flash, I would have tried to do something with post processing.
Hope this helps, sorry its a bit long winded.
NL
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