This is an 11th century castle that sits atop the microstate, San Marino, located within the borders of Italy. This tiny country is only 23 square miles, and I was lucky a few years ago to be there in February when it snowed. I waited until dusk to take pictures so the artificial lighting added ambience to the scene. I always shoot outdoors with daylight white balance, and when taking pictures at dusk the images take on a bluish cast due to the high Kelvin temperature of the light. I like this effect, but I tried something different with this image. In Photoshop, I used the hue/saturation dialog box to eliminate just the blue color. This brought the photograph back to what I saw and made the snow white instead of blue. My settings were 1/40, f/2.8, and 200 ISO, and I used a 70-200mm lens for the shot with the camera mounted on a tripod.
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Dec 13, 2021, 7:47:36 PM
James R Steadman - I have enjoyed your posts daily for a long time, but this is the first time I have responded. Thanks for the suggestion for using daylight white balance on outdoors images, even those shot at dusk under cloudy conditions in winter. I had set my camera to shoot with cloudy white balance, but the results were too yellow and it was difficult to correct. I finally settled on shooting on automatic and did not take the bait in PS to change the white balance to cloudy, with the result that the camera took an image that was right as long as I didn't play around with it. In my case I was shooting Christmas decorations with a drone, and since some of them were blue, I didn't want to desaturate them too much. Once again, the camera (Nikon Z6) is smarter than the photographer.