Winter has finally come to middle Tennessee after unusually warm weather in the 70's. It's going down to 24 degrees this evening, so I thought I would post a few winter pictures. I took this picture of a cottonwood tree laden with snow near Kalispell, Montana. The whiteout conditions made metering interesting. I was still shooting film when I took this, so I didn't have the immediate feedback on the LCD screen on the back of the camera. That meant there was no room for error. A reflected light meter that reads light bouncing back into the camera from the scene wouldn't provide an accurate reading, so the only way to read the light in this situation was to use a handheld incident light meter. Incident meters read the light falling onto the scene, not the light reflected from it. I used a Sekonic L-580 meter. Since this was film, the settings were unrecorded. Based on how I used to shoot with the Mamiya RZ 67 (a medium format camera that took 6x7cm transparencies), the settings were probably 1/4th second, f/32, and 50 ISO with Fujichrome Velvia. I used a 110mm lens which is equivalent to a 50mm normal lens in the full frame digital format. The transparency was scanned by an Imacon scanner to digitize it.
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