How to adjust the exposure of snow scene

When measuring the light of snow, you can make exposure compensation according to the following skills:

Bright and clean snow in the sun, the photometric result is +3EV.

It snows on cloudy days, +2EV.

Snow in the shadows during the day, or gray snow on cloudy days,+1EV.

Dirty, gray snow (or users want to shoot like this), no exposure compensation.

These settings are a good start for general shooting. If the actual metering may be different, try to surround the exposure and find the method that suits you best.

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The biggest problem in shooting snow scenes is that the exposure is not accurate. This is because snow is more reflective; Its brightness is often higher than the surrounding scenery. This will easily lead to the failure of the camera's automatic metering system and the inability to get correct exposure. Therefore, when shooting, if semi-automatic modes such as aperture priority or shutter priority are used, the exposure compensation function should be used to obtain correct exposure.

Generally speaking, the exposure compensation law of "white plus black minus" should be followed. In other words, exposure compensation should be increased when shooting white or bright objects. When shooting black or dark objects, the exposure compensation should be reduced.

Snowy shooting: Snowy days are generally cloudy, the sky is gloomy and the ground is white. When composing a composition, you should reduce the area of the sky, and it is best to avoid the sky appearing in the picture. At this time, it is necessary to increase exposure compensation, improve the brightness of the picture, and make the snow appear whiter. Generally, Ev+ 1 is enough.

Chu Qing shooting after snow: Chu Qing after snow, the brightness of snow is relatively high, and the light in the sky is relatively strong. If the snow scene with white effect is obtained only by increasing exposure compensation, the snow scene will lose its level change.

When shooting a big scene, you can increase exposure compensation to make the whole picture brighter. However, when shooting small scenes such as snow drifts, the exposure compensation can be appropriately reduced. After reducing exposure compensation, the snow scene will not show a gloomy feeling, but will show a blue tone.