I haven't had many models fall asleep during a photo session, but this arctic fox was apparently too tired to participate. I love the white on white theme -- my favorite in nature. Most photography instructors teach you should use exposure compensation to overexpose by 1 1/3 to 1 2/3 f/stops to adjust for the expected underexposure resulting from the meter's reading of the snow. I don't do that. I let the images go a little dark, and then I tweak the exposure in Adobe Camera Raw. This allows me to end up with the perfect exposure, and a small amount of underexposure does not introduce additional noise. Overexposing runs the risk of possibly blowing some of the highlights in the snow, causing a loss in texture and detail. My settings here were 1/250, f/8, 640 ISO.
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Dec 20, 2018, 7:56:45 AM
Jim - Hi Bob, With film, I would use a handheld Sekonic light meter on incident mode. This means the meter is not fooled into underexposure by all the whiteness. We can talk about that on the trip. Having said that, I got really good at determining exposure by eye with no meter involved at all. I can explain how I did that when we're in Yellowstone.
Thank you, Ray.
Dec 19, 2018, 11:58:44 PM
Bob Vestal - Thanks, Jim. Makes sense given the digital tools we now have. I will try your recommendation in Yellowstone. I assume that you would make the adjustment if using film and relying on a meter to guide exposure.
Dec 19, 2018, 5:02:57 PM
Ray Chilton - Absolutely adorable! Thanks for that one.
Ray